There are also other two handy shortcuts in MS IME besides alt + ～ ：
- alt + caps lock will switch to full-width katakana mode.
- ctrl + caps lock will switch to hiragana mode.
Good old alt + shift, which switches language input modes and keyboard layouts altogether, is quite useful too.
On a sidenote, is it even possible to remap some of my keys into the extra keys present in japanese keyboards? I've never found a program which does that, tried doing it manually in the registry too, but it didn't work.
There are also other two
There are also other two handy shortcuts in MS IME besides alt + ～ ：
- alt + caps lock will switch to full-width katakana mode.
- ctrl + caps lock will switch to hiragana mode.
Good old alt + shift, which switches language input modes and keyboard layouts altogether, is quite useful too.
On a sidenote, is it even possible to remap some of my keys into the extra keys present in japanese keyboards? I've never found a program which does that, tried doing it manually in the registry too, but it didn't work.