1.First open the Control Panel dialog box by clicking on the Start button, and then clicking on Control Panel. By default the Control Panel is in the Category View. If that is the case, click on Clock, Language, and Region. If, instead you are in the Classic View, click on Control Panel Home on the left side to bring up the Category View. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click on Change keyboards or other input methods.
2.In the Regional and Language Options dialogue box that opens, click on Change keyboards ...
3.In the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box that opens, click on the Add ... button.
4.The Add Input Language dialogue box opens.
5.Scroll down the list until you find the language you want to add. Skip to section 6 if you only want to add traditional Chinese. Skip to section 7 if you only want to add Japanese. If you want to add simplified Chinese, scroll down to Chinese (PRC), and click on the + button to expand the list of keyboards available. Select the keyboard(s) you want to use by checking the corresponding box. In this example, the Microsoft Pinyin IME and US keyboards are selected. Click on the OK button if you are done with adding languages. Otherwise continue to select additional languages and keyboards.
6.If you want to add traditional Chinese, scroll down to Chinese (Taiwan), and click on the + button to expand the list of keyboards available. Select the keyboard(s) you want to use by checking the corresponding box. In this example, the New Quick and Phonetic keyboards are selected. Click on the OK button if you are done with adding languages. Otherwise continue to select additional languages and keyboards.
7.If you want to add Japanese, scroll down to Japanese (Japan), and click on the + button to expand the list of keyboards available. Select the keyboard(s) you want to use by checking the corresponding box. In this example, the Microsoft IME is selected. Click on the OK button if you are done with adding languages. Otherwise continue to select additional languages and keyboards.
8.After you have finished selecting the languages and the keyboards you want to add, click on the OK button in the Add Input Language dialogue box. Then, in the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box that opens, click on the OK button to finish the installation.
9.The Regional and Language Options dialogue box opens. Click on OK to exit.
10.You should now see a language button 
in the taskbar on the bottom of the screen. If you left click on the language button, the list expands into all the languages you have installed. You can switch to another language for inputting by left clicking and selecting the corresponding item on the language list. Note that within the same document you can change the input language by using the Language button. You can produce a document with a mixture of different languages.
11.For example, if you click on Chinese (PRC), then the Chinese language buttons show up on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.
12.Clicking on the Chinese language button 
expands the language list, with Chinese (PRC) now checked as the selected inputting language.
13.If Show the Language bar is clicked, then the language button changes to a language bar floating near the top of the screen. On the Chinese language bar are various toggle buttons for switching the input mode, input style and other options.
Skip to section 15 to see the Japanese language bar.
14. To the far right of the language bar are two buttons
. Clicking the top button 
(a small rectangle) minimizes the language bar to a language button on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Clicking the bottom button 
(an inverted triangle) brings up some additional options. Checking Charset from the list of options adds a toggle button on the language bar for switching between simplified and traditional characters, as shown in the figure below after the button for Character Set has been clicked.
15. Selecting Japanese as the inputting language from the language bar (or from the language button and then selecting Show the Language bar) brings up the Japanese language bar, with various option buttons specific to the Japanese IME. For normal input of Japanese text, select Hiragana as the Input Mode.
To the far right of the language bar are two buttons . Clicking the top button (a small rectangle) minimizes the language bar to a language button on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Clicking the bottom button (an inverted triangle) brings up some additional options.
16. New users may want to take a look at the pages for writing Chinese and Japanese to get started quickly with working with Chinese and/or Japanese in their documents. Please see also the overview on reading and writing e-mail in Chinese and Japanese.
