You may need to switch from simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese for your work or academic needs. Or convert traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese. On a Windows computer, Word can convert simplified and traditional characters in one click, but if you’re using a Mac, Word probably doesn’t have the option.
But the Mac actually has a built-in conversion function. According to the teaching method of this article, you can switch from simple to complex, complex to simple in Mac.
Word for Mac doesn’t have a “simplify to complex” or “simplify to simple” feature
The new version of Word for Mac doesn’t offer “to simplify” or “to simplify” features, but don’t worry, we can still use the Mac’s built-in “to simplify” features to convert Chinese characters in Word files with one click, without downloading additional applications.
How to switch from Mac to Mac?
Follow these steps to convert the Mac to Chinese with one click, whether it’s a Word file or a text you’ve copied:
- Start the Mac’s built-in “Text Editor” application, and you can use Spotlight to type in keywords to quickly search and open.
- If you already have the text you want to convert in a file (for example, Word), you can open it directly here, or you can add a blank file by clicking “New File” in the lower left corner.
If you choose to open the old file, the text in your file will be displayed here. If you choose to add new files, please paste the Chinese characters that you want to convert from Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese.
Select all the characters, right-click and choose “Services” > “Convert characters to Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese”.
For example, the text in my file is traditional Chinese, when I choose to convert the text to simplified Chinese, it is completed with one click!
After converting, you can use the shortcut key “Command + S” to save the file.
Mac doesn’t show “Convert text to Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese” option?
If “Convert text to Simplified Chinese” and “Convert Text to Simplified Chinese” are not displayed in “Services” when you right-click, please follow these steps to enable this function.
- Enable “System and Preferences”
- I’m gonna go ahead and say keyboard
- Switch to the Quick button
- Click “Services” on the function column on the left
- Select “Convert Text to Simplified Chinese” and “Convert Text to Simplified Chinese”
conclusion
The Mac’s built-in Word editor allows us to convert traditional and simplified Chinese characters with one click, helping us to solve the problem of converting traditional and simplified Chinese characters on The Mac Word file.