After you install the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office on Japanese or Traditional Chinese Microsoft Office 2003, the Input Method Editor (IME) window might not work properly in Microsoft Word. The IME is the window that enables you to input Asian characters. Specifically, the candidate characters window in the IME does not display the candidate character choices for input into Microsoft Word.

This problem does not occur in Excel or PowerPoint.

The workaround requires you to be running the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 (TS2M2)/SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 4.22.0.9238, or later. So, your first step is to upgrade your release.

The second step to the workaround is to add a configuration setting to a file named SAS.OfficeAddin.dll.config. The SAS.OfficeAddin.dll.config file is not created by default, but you might have created one to resolve a different issue. If the file exists, then open it in a text editor. If it does not exist, then use a text editor to create one. The file must be saved in the SAS Add-In installation directory, typically C:\Program Files\SAS\Add-In for Microsoft Office\4.2\.

For an existing file, add the following option within the <assemblySettings> tag.

<add key="SkipWordTemplateSync" value="true"/>

If the file already exists at your site, you might have other settings within the <assemblySettings> tag. You can add the above option within the existing tag with the other settings already specified.

For a new file, insert the following content into the file:

<configuration>
  <assemblySettings>
    <add key="SkipWordTemplateSync" value="true"/>
  </assemblySettings>
</configuration>

Note: If you have a custom template that creates your own top-level menus with Microsoft Word, this circumvention might hide the custom menus. For more information regarding a fix for top-level menus that can be nullified by this circumvention, see SAS Note 32806.

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