Saturday, February 19, 2011

Add another language to your keyboard

“Type or edit text in a different language”
Add another language to your keyboard
Click Start (The MS Word Icon)
Click Control Panel
UNDER Clock, Language, and Region - Click change keyboards or other input
Click change keyboards
Under Installed services, click Add
I added Spanish US
Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin ABC Input Style
Arabic Keyboard Arabic 101
Chinese Simplified US Keyboard
By the time there will be a language icon EN, CH, AR, ES, and others if you chose other languages.  There is a choice to display the language bar or to hide it.
When you type in Spanish the accents will be “written” in for you.  Also, editing will be for Spanish words.
If you want to try Chinese, type in peng (remember, you have to change the language first).  When you type peng several characters will come up on the screen by the pinyin (pinyin is the Romanticized version of Chinese in order to learn how to pronounce the characters).
which means friend.  You have to type in peng – space – then the characters show.  Choose a character then pick you - space - and choose a character.
I do not know enough of Arabic to show you how to use it, yet…
I used this web site to describe how to do this function:

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