My Supervisor is Taiwanese and they use Traditional Chinese. So when I read mails by her, I gotta squint my eyes real hard because I only know Simplified Chinese. Similarly, whenever I pass any documents to her, she has to convert my text to Traditional.

Is there a FREE program I can download into Word so I can convert my files? Apparently Microsoft Proofing needs to be purchased

Is it that difficult? I am a Taiwanese but studied in Taiwan until middle school. I took my education in English speakng countries and I can read Simplied Chinese without any difficulty. I hardly heard any complaint about it.

In my company, we always have frequent e-mails to and from people who use simplied Chinese. They can all read it (of course need some time to get ued to it).

My suggestion is get used to it (special your boss from Taiwan, I heard a roomer saying the United Nation is planning to abolish Traditional Chinese in 2008), See below...

* Have you heard of Dr.EYE? It's a translation software which can easily translate btween Traditional and Simplified Chinese, as well as other languages.

**Say NO to United Nations' abolishment of Traditional Chinese in 2008**
< http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/say ... ishment-of
-traditional-chinese-in-2008.html>****

Sign This Petition:

We, the undersigned, are appalled by the abolishment of Traditional Chinese
in UN documents. This is an act of annihilation of the culture and history
of the Chinese people.

Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese are of extreme significance and
should be recognized equally on the international level and by UN.

請連署支持繁體中文！

聯合國決定於2008廢除繁體中文，

http://www.gopetition.com/region/237/8314.html

Willy, I said that I know Simplified, but have problems with Traditional. I can only understand 70% and have to squint my eyes and ask colleagues for help for the rest. Everyone knows Traditional has a lot more strokes than Simplified. And anyway I take a much longer time to read Traditional so might as well get some help to change to Simplified.

I don't really want to translate, but more of conversion.

Not that I would ever condone piracy, but the proofing tools cd is over at:

http://btjunkie.org/search?q=proofing+tools

If its a legit business expense, you should be able to get the company to purchase it though..