Re: displaying Hebrew fonts

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If Word thinks you're in Hebrew, then everything must be set for right-
to-left, such as your indents. You must have done something either to
Vista or to the Office defaults to make it think you're always in
Hebrew.

On May 12, 1:12 pm, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"
<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now I have the HE showing up everytime I start typing, it's just there,
everything comes up in English, just strange,...
Thanks again, everything is working. It takes time when you set up a new
computer..
Rivka"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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You don't need that if you don't have more than one keyboard per
language. For instance, you might have an "intertational" kbd for
English, so you can easily get the pound or the euro sign, or you
might have a Dvorak keyboard (supposedly more efficient). For Hebrew,
you might have a Yiddish one with the extra vowel letters (including
the double-yud that's in every Hebrew font to accommodate Yiddish).

On May 11, 6:14 pm, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"



<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There was a selection, after you select Regional and Language Options, and
you go to Keyboards and Languages, and you go to Change Keyboards, theres
a
tab for Show additional Language bar icons. I checked that and thats how I
got the keyboard icon. But now Ive lost my apostrophe and quotes. Going to
go find them
Rivka"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I don't have that second icon. Maybe you installed more than one
Hebrew keyboard.

(I used to have it when I had the Keyman accessory, which has largely
been replaced by greater capacity in Vista.)

On May 11, 4:18 pm, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"

<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just got it to work,,, yey!! There was a step that Iwas missing.
There's
an icon in the task bar for keyboard. So you click on EN and change it
to
HE, then you click on the keyboard icon, and select Hebrew Israel, and
then,
it goes in Hebrew, and the on screen keyboard is in Hebrew...
Thanks so much.
Rivka"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Do you mean the On-Screen Keyboard doesn't show as Hebrew? Your cursor
needs to be _in_ a document for which you've chosen HE from the icon
near the bottom right, and then you glide your mouse pointer over the
OSK and it switches to Hebrew.

On May 11, 2:09 pm, "Howard & Rivka Finkelstein"

<hrfinkelst...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for all the info. Everything worked fine, except that the
Hebrew
Keyboard did not come up, and everything is in English still
But I do have an "on screen keyboard" shortcut on my desktop.
Rivka"grammatim" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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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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