I need to type a form up in vietnamese. Any ideas how to get those characters on to WORD?

9/9/2005 1:17:16 PM

I'm pretty sure you'll need to use the MS Office CD-ROM along with the following steps provided by Microsoft in the below link.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030845661033.aspx

9/9/2005 6:33:10 PM

"How can get"? Why don't you try learning English first?

9/9/2005 7:55:08 PM

you could always try openoffice.org

there's a vietnamese version at http://vi.openoffice.org/

don't know if that'd actually help though.

you don't need to go to the vietnamese site to download the vietnamese version though.

[Edited on September 9, 2005 at 8:12 PM. Reason : ]

9/9/2005 8:09:47 PM

IIRC, Vietnamese hasn't been approved for Unicode use yet, and there's been people bitching left and right to get it a standard part of it (again, IIRC).

Best thing I can recommend is to import it as a font set. Where to get it you should ask Google. I remember for my Linguistics class I had to bring in a special font set to do all those freaky phonetic spellings.

9/9/2005 9:38:16 PM

* Note you might need the Winxp cd to load the extra languages. I know you would for Chinese, Japanese, thai, etc...

Go to Control panel > Regional and Language Options.
Then click the Languages tab, then click the Details button (in the text services and input languages).
Then, click the "add" button under installed services. In the input language list select Vietnamese.
Under Keyboard layout just leave it as vietnamese.

Now you will probably get the language bar to appear in the right hand side of the task bar, or upper right hand side of you screen.
Basically, all you do is open Word ( or any program you want to type in Vietnamese) and then at the language bar select the language you want to type with.

Now the only tricky part is the layout of your keyboard will change.

So go to Start>all programs>accessories>accessibility>on screen keyboard.

Now when you maximize Word and select Vietnamese as the input language, you can see the layout of the keyboard.

The Vietnamese keyboard layout is almost the same except the numbers(above qwerty) become accents "aâê´d-?" and the '{' and '}' keys become uo

9/9/2005 10:04:45 PM

CHARLIE DON'T TYPE

9/9/2005 10:53:16 PM