USING TEXT

Introduction to Using Text
Attach Files
HTML
MS Word
MS Office Suite
Non-English Keyboard
Plain Text
Spell Check
Smart Quotes
Text Formatting Editor
   including Math Editor

JVM and JavaScript
JavaScript is different than the JVM.  JavaScript is required and lets you see what others have written with the TFE.  The JVM is optional and lets you write with the TFE yourself.

Make MS Office 2007 documents compatible with MS Office 2003 documents.

Non-English Language Bar

The Language bar provides a quick way to change the input language or keyboard layout from your desktop.   To read more about Windows' language toolbar visit http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/
 

The following character sets are provided by default from Microsoft with your operating system

• Most Western European (Spanish, French, German, Italian and so forth)
• Most Central European (Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and so forth)
• Most Baltic Languages (Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, and so forth)
• Modern Greek
• Cyrillic - Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian and so forth.

The following language bars are available from Microsoft, but you must load them onto your computer from the system disk first

• East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai)
• Hebrew
• Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Urdu
• Other Middle Eastern: Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Syriac
• Indian Scripts: Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Gujarati, Divehi

Some keyboards are available only with Service Release Pack 2 (SP 2)

• South Asian scripts such as Bengali, Malayalam and Oriya

How to activate the language bar in Windows XP
This procedure activates the Language Bar utility which allows you to switch keyboards from your desktop.

1. Click on Windows Start  > Control Panels
2. Click on Regional and Language Options
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4. In the Regional Options window, click on the Language tab  on the top.
5. Click the Details button to open the Settings window.
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8. Click Add and select a language from the drop-down menu. Click OK, you will be returned to the Settings tab, and the selected language will appear in the Installed Services list.
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10. Now click on the Language Bar button at the bottom to open the Language  Bar Settings window.
11. Check the option Show the Language bar on the desktop, then click OK to close the window.
    NOTE: You can click Show Text Labels to show the full label.
    NOTE: If you close a window without clicking OK, none of the  settings will be changed. You should see a blue toolbar on the top of your desktop. The Language settings  is to the far left.


This Language Toolbar is set to Russian.

NOTE:  To use a language keyboard, right click on the Task Bar. 
Select Toolbars >  Language Bar


Select a language

Keyboard Legends
The Microsoft Visual Keyboard is a utility which allows you to view the keyboard layout for various languages.   You can download the utility onto your own computer from http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2002/VkeyInst.aspx     Follow the posted instructions to install and use.

This image shows a sample layout window of a Hebrew keyboard as seen in the Microsoft Visual Keyboard.

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