Re: displaying Hebrew fonts

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Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and
Languages > Change Keyboards > Add...

Once you've added as many keyboards as you'd like, and you OK your way
out of all those panels, you'll find a square near the right end of
the desktop status bar that reads "EN." Click on that and you'll see
HE (and any other languages you just turned on). When your cursor is
in a Word document (or any other document), if you choose a keyboard
from that list, you will then be typing in that language in that
document.

If you go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access you
can open the On-Screen Keyboard. When your cursor is in a document set
to Hebrew keyboard, when you move your cursor over the on-screen
keyboard, it changes to show you the Hebrew letters you can type (or
click on). You can add an OSK icon to the Start menu or to the status
bar for convenience.

There's a surprisingly useful guide to typing in Hebrew at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard

On May 9, 11:51 pm, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"
<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry, I keep leaving this out,it's a new computer,it's Vista....
Thanks
Rivka"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Once again: We can't help you if you don't tell us whether you have XP
or Vista.

On May 8, 11:47 am, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"



<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wanted to do both, I found the insert symbol, and that worked fine. I'm
having trouble working with the "control panel" as I don't get the choice
to
"add language"

"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Do you actually want to type Hebrew language texts, or do you just
want a few decorative letters or words here and there? If you want to
actually write in Hebrew, right-to-left and maybe even with vowel
pointing, then you do need to install Hebrew through that control
panel, but how it's done is different depending on whether you use
Windows XP or Vista.

If you just need a little bit of Hebrew, a number of ordinary fonts,
including Times New Roman, Arial, and Tahoma, have the letters; go to
Insert Symbol and choose Hebrew from the drop-down at the upper right.
Times has the most traditional looking shapes, and Lucida Sans has
nice ones, too.

On May 7, 11:26 pm, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"

<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is it exactly. I did select Hebrew in Microsoft Office Language
settings, but when I tried to add the language through Control Panel,
Regional and Language Options, the "add language" option did not
appear...
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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My guess is that "the selection" means the Font dropdown. Since these
fonts may (like MS Mincho and SimSun) include ordinary Latin
characters
in
the keyboard positions, the Hebrew characters would have to be
inserted
via a different keyboard layout/IME or using Unicode numbers or from
Insert | Symbol. It would also be necessary to install support for
Hebrew
through Control Panel | Regional and Language Options and perhaps also
through the Microsoft Office Language Settings.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Tom Ferguson" <tom.newsgro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Perhaps it is totally me/my problem; however, I don't know what "the
selection" references. I am supposing that "the document" refers to a
Word document that is being displayed in Word, on the screen.

Is "the selection" from some other source? Please explain further.
Also,
what language version(s) of Windows and Word and other application
(?)
are you using.

I suspect it is an encoding/font problem but I can't determine
exactly
which one it is from the information given.
--

Tom Ferguson
MSMVP 1998-2007

"Howard & Rivka Finkelstein" <hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I recently started using Word - Office, and Hebrew fonts appear in
the
selection, but they don't show on the document. How do I correct
this?
Thanks---
.

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