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Change yen symbol to backslash

Anonymous
2011-03-14T15:57:58+00:00

I have a word document that was created on a Japanese system. It's a software manual and has some paths in it. Having been created on a Japanese system the backslashes are displayed as the yen symbol which is expected.

The problem is this translated document is intended for an English market so I want the yen symbol to display as a backslash in this particular document. I've seen suggestions on the web that say to remove Japanese font support from Office. But that's not what I want as I often have to edit Japanese documents. All I want to do is set this document to use western characters. I'm also doubtful that would work as I've actually transferred the document to a system that has no Asian font support installed and tried editing the document on that. I've also tried using different fonts. It still seems impossible to replace the Yen symbol with a backslash.

Is there anyway I can switch this document to using backslashes instead of Yen symbols?

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-05-08T18:09:48+00:00

    for Word 2010

    got to File, Options, Advanced, at the bottom click on Layout Options and uncheck Convert backslash characters into yen signs

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-28T18:41:12+00:00

    Hi

    I had this same issue.  First I checked to see if my keyboard was set to be English.

    In Windows 7 - Control Panel - Language and Keyboards.  It was.

    Then I went to my Outlook and saw that my default font was Myeiro - once I changed it to Tahoma or something more normal the Yen sign stopped coming up and I had my slashes.

    So my suggestion would be to change your default font to one of the standard ones.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-05T18:21:13+00:00

    Then I ... saw that my defalut language was Myeiro - once I changed it to Tahoma or something more normal the Yen sign stopped coming up and I had my slashes.

    I had my Myeiro as my font as well and I've had the yen/backslash issue for over a year.

    All my languages are set to English - never could find the problem.

    After seeing this post, I changed fonts and it was fixed.  *Never* would've guessed that was the issue.

    Thanks for posting!

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-03-16T10:02:31+00:00

    Caveat: I do not have a complete understanding of this difficult issue.

    If the correct unicode character (U+005c) is in your document it should display as a backslash on all non-Japanese (and non-Korean) systems - unless, perhaps, you are using a font with the ¥ glyph at that point.

    So the question is: what character do you actually have? To see the unicode code, select the character and press Alt+X. If you have U+005c, it is already a backslash, so change the Font. If it is anything else (U+00a5, perhaps), change it to U+005c and, if it still displays as ¥, then change the font as well.

    Do be aware that Word and/or Windows may do some special processing just for this character, so double check to make sure you actually get the desired character and the desired font even if you thought you entered them correctly.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-03-15T07:48:53+00:00

    How about find all and replace?

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