Can't display pinyin above Chinese characters

[Juliette Devillard]

Dear all,

I am trying to find the function that would enable me to display pinyin above mandarin characters. All of my Mandarin teachers seem to be able to do it but I simply can't find the button anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this?

[Magnus Lewan]

Format > Asian Layout > Phonetic Guide is the menu path in some versions of MS Word. It is not available in all language versions however, and in mine I have to type the pinyin manually. Japanese is filled automatically for me. MS Word for Windows is more convenient in this particular respect. 

Cheers

M

On 23 Apr 2015, at 07:28, Juliette Devillard <devil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,

I am trying to find the function that would enable me to display pinyin above mandarin characters. All of my Mandarin teachers seem to be able to do it but I simply can't find the button anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this?

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[SPD]

Hi Juliette,

If you use Apple's Pages, it's easy to add pinyin above characters. This feature was, I believe, only added with the latest version (5). Just select your text, right click, and select "Add Phonetic Text" from the pop-up menu. You can make changes to the text field manually too, if necessary. 

[Jim 持夢 Gottlieb]

On 2015-04-22 (水), at 22:28, Juliette Devillard <devil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to find the function that would enable me to display pinyin above mandarin characters.

Not sure what you mean by "function". I recommend using http://mandarinspot.com/annotate .