Issues in MS-Word, Powerpoint etc.

If characters appear as squares in MS-Word and as disjointed characters in Powerpoint while typing in unicode Tamil, follow the steps below to rectify that problem (Note : Office 2000 and earlier versions may not support Unicode typing using Azhagi even after following these steps. You may have to upgrade to Office 2002 and later versions).

· Click on "Start->Control Panel->(Date, Time, Language and Regional Options)->Regional and Language Options"

· In 'Supplemental language support', see whether "Install files for Complex Script and right to left languages (including thai)" is kept ticked.

· If ticked, leave it as it is. If not ticked, tick it. It will start installing some required files and Windows XP CD will be required to complete the process.

· You might have to restart the machine for the new setting to take effect.

· Click on "Start->Control Panel->(Date, Time, Language and Regional Options)->Regional and Language Options"

· Under 'Installed services' you will find your default Language/Keyboard selected - most often it will be EN and US

· Click on the listbox titled 'Input language'. Scroll down or up the list to select 'Tamil'.

· Click on the listbox below it titled 'Keyboard layout/IME'. Scroll down or up the list to select 'US'.

· Under 'Installed services' you will now find two entries 'EN' and 'TA'. The sub-heading 'Keyboard' under TA should be showing just 'US'.

· Click on 'Key Settings' button. You will find 'Left Alt + Shift' being the default hotkey to change keyboard layout from one language to another. If you wish, you can set/change these hotkeys to suit your convenience. We assume for the purpose of this document that you left the default hotkey as it is.

· Start azhagi and click 'OK' in the opening password screen. Right click the azhagi tray icon (at the right bottom corner of the screen) and keep 'Unicode Input' ticked.

· See whats the language chosen in the language bar (a small bar floating on your desktop or stationed in your taskbar). It will be most probably EN, meaning English language. You can see this in the status bar of MS-Word (Powerpoint) too.

· Press Left Alt + Shift and you will see the language in the language bar changing to TA (Tamil). You can see this change in the status bar of MS-Word (Powerpoint) too.

· Press 'F10' and azhagi's icon will turn red, to indicate you are in direct typing mode.

· Start typing in English in MS-Word (Powerpoint) and you will see it appearing in unicode Tamil seamlessly.

· If you wish to change your typing mode from 'Phonetic' to 'Tamil Typewriter' or 'Tamilnet99', click on 'Preferences->Keyboard Layout' and choose your preferred layout. Alternately, you can right click on the Azhagi icon in the system tray, move your mouse to 'Typing mode' and select the preferred layout.

Note : If you have any doubts in implementing any of the steps above, do not hesitate to write to us at support@azhagi.com

· You will see a list of languages under 'Language Settings for the system'. Scroll down the list. When you see 'Indic' see whether it is already ticked.

· If ticked, leave it as it is. If not ticked, tick it. It will start installing some required files and Windows 200 CD will be required to complete the process.

· You might have to restart the machine for the new setting to take effect.

· Under 'Installed input locales' you will find your default language/keyboard layout selected - most often it will be EN and US

· Click on the listbox titled 'Input locale'. A list will appear. Scroll down or up the list to select 'Tamil'.

· Click on the listbox below it titled 'Keyboard layout/IME'. Scroll down or up the list to select 'US'.

· Under 'Installed input locales' you will now find two entries EN and TA. Under 'Keyboard layout/IME' for 'TN', it should be showing 'US'.

· Under 'Hotkeys for input locales', you will find 'Left Alt + Shift' being the default hotkey to change keyboard layout from one language to another. If you wish, you can click on 'Change key Sequence' to set/change these hotkeys to suit your convenience. We assume for the purpose of this document that you left the default hotkey as it is.

· Start azhagi and click 'OK' in the opening password screen. Right click the azhagi tray icon (at the right bottom corner of the screen) and keep 'Unicode Input' ticked.

· See whats the language chosen in the language bar (a small bar floating on your desktop or stationed in your taskbar). It will be most probably EN, meaning English language.

· Press Left Alt + Shift and you will see the language in the language bar changing to TA (Tamil).

· Press 'F10' and azhagi's icon will turn red, to indicate you are in direct typing mode.

· Start typing in English in MS-Word (Powerpoint) and you will see it appearing in unicode Tamil seamlessly.

Note : If the above steps do not work out in Win2k, then switch over to Win XP and above!