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Chinese Translation Online Links

2. An excellent online translation program for
     understanding each chinese character and
     it has several ways to search for a chinese
     "word" - english word to chinese, by pinyin,
     by stroke, by radical or even using the whole
     chinese character (cut and paste) can be used
     to search for the chinese character.
      a)    www.dictionary.kaide.net/
      b)    Main search Web-page
     HIghly recommended as most of the characters
     I searched is correctly translated.
     Many thanks to the person behind this - Indra Kurniawan

Before one can start, one must open up the Chinese language features in Windows XP by going to the langugage in Regional Setting in Wndows XP Control Panel (details in text box below - just click on arrow on right of text box)

1. An excellent online translation program is
     the Microsoft WinWord 2003 translation module
     It is useful for translating a word, a phrase or
     even an entire document.
     This is the link to how to do this.

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Date created: May 2007



	HOW TO WRITE CHINESE IN MICROSOFT If you already have Microsoft Word, or Open Office Writer, or any other word processor, you don't need to install any new Chinese software. All you need to do is to activate the East Asian language support under Win XP. After you have done that, you can also type Chinese words in your Yahoo mail, or Outlook Express, or whatever email platform you use. How to activate:- 1. Open the Control Panel dialog box by clicking on the Start button, and then click on Control Panel. Click on "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options." Next click "Regional and Language Options" icon to open the Regional and Language Options dialog box. 2. Once the dialog box is opened, click the "Languages" tab. 3. Check the box for "Install files for East Asian Languages" under Supplemental language support. Then click OK. 4. Once the language files have been installed, click "Details" button to open the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialog box. 5. Under "Installed Services", you will probably see "EN English (United States)". Now, you would want to add Chinese language. So, click "Add" button, scroll to "Chinese (PRC)" and this as an additional input language. Click "OK". 6. Click "OK" to close the dialog boxes. Towards the right of your taskbar, at the bottom of your screen, you can see the language bar option. 7. To test that you have installed it, try opening either your email or MS Word programs. Change the EN to CH. Now type in the Hanyu Pinyin of the word that you want. For instance, if you want to type the chinese word of "good", the Hanyu Pinyin will be "hao3". I shall now switch to CH to type the word. This is what you get - ? .If that is not the word you want, putting your cursor underneath the character will reveal a list of characters with the same pronunciation. Choose the one you are looking for. 8. That's it. You are now able to type chinese words in your PC. If you want to type in other East Asian languages like Japanese, use the same method but choose Japanese as your input language. Have fun.