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Hawaiian Unicode Style Document

If you type a lot of documents in Word and use Hawaiian, you can save yourself a lot of time and headache by setting up Unicode fonts in Word's Style palate. Sample styles and instructions provided. Download it as a .docx file in order to get the embedded styles to import into your copy of Word.

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Hawaiian Unicode Style Document

If you type a lot of documents in Word and use Hawaiian, you can save yourself a lot of time and headache by setting up Unicode fonts in Word's Style palate. Sample styles and instructions provided. Download it as a .docx file in order to get the embedded styles to import into your copy of Word.

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Keola Donaghy
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© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
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Download as DOCX or read online on Scribd
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If you frequently need to type in the Hawaiian language using the ³Hawaiian´ keyboard that ships with
OS X or the customized Hawaiian Unicode keyboard provided by the Hale Kuamoµo, one of the
customizations you can do to Microsoft Word to make your life a whole lot easier is to set the global
Styles to use fonts that have all of the macron/vowel combinations and the µokina included. This
document itself contains modified versions of some of the common default Styles, and the instructions
below tell you how to make them the defaults when you create a new document in Microsoft Word.

  


I have found that the Styles feature of Word is one of the least used yet most powerful features of Word.
Many friends and colleagues will spend several minutes changing the fonts, styles, spacing, indents and
other characteristics of each new document they create. While most of these are beyond the scope of this
document, I encourage you to take some time to explore the style feature, and customize its defaults for
your use.
Another important thing to note is that when you customize any style in Word, that change is saved in
the document that you are currently working on, and is not automatically made the global or default for
Word. You must explicitly copy the style from your document to the global file. This document includes
instructions on doing this.

  
This document includes several common styles that are found in Word by default. This includes
³Normal´ and several ³Heading´ styles. In this document, I have made Times New Roman the font
specified in the ³Normal´ style and Helvetica the font used in all of the ³Heading´ styles, though the
size and other characteristics will vary. Both of these fonts include the µokina and kahakō needed to type
in Hawaiian. Here is now to install them:

1) o to the ³Format´ menu and select


³Style´. The dialog box shown
below will appear.

Click on the ³Organizer´ button.


2) Note that the
styles that appear
in the left box are
those found in this
document, and the
ones on the right
are those found in
the global
template.
3) Select all of the
styles found in the
left box, and then
click on the
³Copy ->´ button.

4) You will see a dialog box asking that you


confirm your desire to have the styles
replaced with those selected. Click on ³Yes
To All´.

5) When you are done, click on the ³Close´ button and you will be returned to Word. The styles
that were embedded in this document are now your global defaults.

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You can easily change any of the styles in this document or any other. o to
the Formatting Palatte in Word. If it is not displayed, go to the ³View´ menu
and select ³Formatting Palatte´ and it should display to the right of your
current document.

Note the ¶ symbol to the right of the ³Heading´ styles in the palatte that
appears in the graphic to the right. This indicates that you may edit the style.
1) Click on the ¶ symbol that appears to the right of ³Heading 1´ and a
small contextual menu will appear. From this menu, select ³Modify
Style¶.

2) A new dialog box will appear that will allow you to


change many of the characteristics of this style ± the
font itself, the size, italicizing, bolding, colorizing,
underlining and many more. Make whatever
changes you wish to this style, click the ³OK´
button, and the changes will be saved.
2  These changes are only saved in the
document that you are currently working on. If you
want to save them into your global settings, you
must follow the directions above to copy the style
from your document into the global settings.

Please note that I do no provide technical support for this document nor any other that involves the
implementation of Hawaiian language on various technologies. Nor may I be held liable for any
damaged cause by your use of these instructions. If you find an error in this document or have any
suggestions for improving it, feel free to contact me at [email protected].

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