toggle between hiragana and katakana in Windows 7

For those of you who speak Japanese, I know to toggle between hiragana and roman alphabet it is left Alt+grave accent, but I don't how to toggle between hiragana and katakana. If you could tell me that'd be great.

Thanks.

 

Are you using the Microsoft IME input editor? If you are (I'm on Vista though) then use hiragana to input something in Japanese and then press F7 thereafter to get a katakana writing.

Normally what I do is type something out in hiragana and then select what I want from the drop-down list with spacebar.

 

You can switch between input languages under windows by pushing alt+shift. This will put you in Japanese mode but you’ll still be in the Direct Input mode of the Japanese IME. From here you can switch into hiragana mode by pushing alt+caps lock or katakana mode by pushing ctrl+caps lock.
You can switch between direct input and Japanese with Alt-Tilde (Alt+~). While typing in Japanese, use Enter to leave as hiragana, Space to convert to kanji and F7 to convert to katakana.

 

thank you guys. Alt cap lock and control cap lock was what I was after. F7 also does the job.

Have you guys tried F6? What are they used for? It converts hiragana to katakana one by one.

 

I have no idea what F6 does because I don't speak(even though I would like to) a word of Japanese .I just found the subject interesting and I did some research on it.

 

F6 seems useful if you're doing something like compound vocabulary comprised of a mixture between katakana and Kanji (Try typing Chobits in Japanese and F6 comes in quite handy).

I've yet to figure how to get the IME writer to do furigana with regular words.

 

I know how to do furigana in microsoft words, but don't know how to do it in regular typing.

 

Is there a way to quick change between english and kanji? I saw some people hitting something akin to ctrl+space, but I never got that to work.

 

do you mean English to Japanese?

read my first post.

 

Oh , thank you.

 

Furigana in Microsoft Word? Mind sharing how since I've no idea how to do it under any circumstances.

 

I'm using office word 2010...

1. type some anything with kanji, I'm using your signature as example

2. high light part you want furigana

3. go to "home" tap

4. click the "phonetic guide" button



5. edit ruby text to your need, word should already done them for you.



6. click ok.

 

That's a first-class guide you've provided, thank you very much. I'll keep the link for reference for the future.

Edit: Tried it out at work today on an older version of Word. It works but I need to keep the "Extended formatting" toolbar active when Japanese IME is on to get all of the useful features.