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You can add characters and symbols to your document that are not on your computer's keyboard. First click on the point in your document where you want to insert a special character. Then click on Insert - Symbol.
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You can add even more special characters with a free program called Unipad, available from http://www.unipad.org/download/index.html.
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In this screenshot, we've chosen the Greek keyboard. Now typing on our keyboard will enter the characters shown on the keyboard in the screen. A few characters have been typed in.
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These characters can be copied and pasted into your Word document.
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Actually, as we will see, there are other ways of entering foreign language characters into Word. But Unipad also has a large number of special characters that you can use. Here we will click on Character Map.
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Here we've chosen Number Forms and double-clicked on a few characters.
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Here we've pasted the new characters into MS Word. Some of the characters don't display, because the current font, Time New Roman, does not have a mapping for them.
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Here we've changed the font to MS UI Gothic and now the special characters display properly. The MS UI Gothic is a Unicode font and has mappings for most of the characters that you can select via Unipad.
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More about entering foreign language (non-roman) alphabets: You can choose from a large variety of language inputs via the Regional Options applet in the control panel.
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The Regional Options dialog opens. You can use this dialog to configure your system to be able to enter a number of languages, including Japanese, Korean and Hindi, directly from your keyboard. For more information about how to use this tool, consult the Windows 2000 Bookshelf at http://www.evisa.com/e/sb.htm.
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