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Application.GetPhonetic Method (Excel)

Returns the Japanese phonetic text of the specified text string. This method is available to you only if you have selected or installed Japanese language support for Microsoft Office.

Syntax

expression .GetPhonetic(Text)

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Parameters

Name

Required/Optional

Data Type

Description

Text

Optional

Variant

Specifies the text to be converted to phonetic text. If you omit this argument, the next possible phonetic text string (if any) of the previously specified Text is returned. If there are no more possible phonetic text strings, an empty string is returned.

Return Value

String

Example

This example displays all of the possible phonetic text strings from the specified string.

strPhoText = Application.GetPhonetic("純子") 
While strPhoText <> "" 
    MsgBox strPhoText 
    strPhoText = Application.GetPhonetic() 
Wend

See Also

Concepts

Application Object

Application Object Members