That is because, if the word phonetic guide to come up with, rely on the Microsoft Pinyin Input method to support, it is the phonetic function is from this input method inside. Or, if your word is installed in a custom installation, rather than a full installation, this problem can also occur.
Generally, you must install Microsoft Chinese Input Method 3.0 or later, otherwise this feature is not valid.
With the prerequisites as above, the phonetic guide will be able to use the normal, of course, you can add at most 30 characters at the same time pinyin, more than 30 are not.
Knowledge Development: Using phonetic guides, we can do the following part of the work.
Let pinyin and text separate
We are accustomed to put pinyin in the top of the text, but sometimes only to individual difficult to read phonetic notation, so that pinyin will occupy a line of position, if the printing is too wasteful of paper, so the pinyin and text on one line. First use the phonetic guide to the phonetic alphabet, select and copy the phonetic characters, and then select Paste from the Clipboard section, and then select unformatted text. After the confirmation (Pīn) tone (Yīn) was pasted to the right of the original Chinese character and also automatically added parentheses, now looks very human.
Cleverly correct the wrong phonetic notation
Phonetic notation for a piece of text sometimes found that phonetic notation may not be accurate, this is because the "phonetic guide" to some of the words of the subordinate relationship to judge errors caused, or word on the word and the word before and after the relationship of inaccurate judgments. At this point, the phonetic guide will be based on what it judged by the so-called words to phonetic notation (such as "to (Yào) is (shi) not (bù) flooded (Yān) not (mò) use (yòng) (CHU)", the Right should "(yào) Be (shi) not (bù) flooded (Yān) not (Méi) used ( Yòng) (CHU) "). The method of modification is to select the word that is in the words separately, and then use phonetic guides for phonetic notation. But sometimes word has "romantic" to the words should not be composed of words as a word together, when you can't choose the right words, you can select the temporary combination, click the word in the Phonetic Guide dialog box, and then write the phonetic notation in the above method.