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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / October 2006Problem with international character toolbar add-in
I posted this on microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars but got no response: Wondering if someone can help me with activating other language sets in Word 2003. Eight months ago I installed the International Character Toolbar add-in. Somehow I got French and Spanish character sets to show as toolbars. Can't remember how I did it, however, because now I can't easily add any other characters sets to the French and Spanish. Perhaps if someone could take me through the steps. (I have tried Tools->Customize->Toolbars but this doesn't allow you to add new character sets Tried a right click on existing French and Spanish toolbars but doesn't lead to any additions). Hopefully this is pretty easy but it seems to me that Microsoft's explanation of the steps is a bit vague. Hi Bill > Wondering if someone can help me with activating other language sets in > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > character sets Tried a right click on existing French and Spanish > toolbars but doesn't lead to any additions). I've never "tinkered" with this tool (my fingers know one keyboard layout and I type all languages with that). But I suspect you were able to get the languages because you could install the corresponding proofing tools from the Office CD. French and Spanish are part of the English Office edition. To get other languages, you have to purchase the Proofing tools CD. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Cindy, Thanks for taking a look at my post. Since posting I managed to figure out the solution to my problem. Once installed, the international character toolbar has a general characters sets menu. Mine was shut off. To turn it back on you just use Tools->Customize->Commands->Toolbars and activate the character sets menu. Then using Select Sets you can choose from a menu of the 26 available languages -- you can add character sets from Basque to Turkish. In my case, there was an additional problem that my Microsoft Word was somehow corrupted so that the Character sets menu I just referred to wasn't available. I had to use the Help->Detect and Repair menu option a few times before the international character toolbar was installed properly and I could choose from the available character sets. For people who have Word 2003 and need one of the 26 (European) character sets, the international character toolbar is a much more convenient alternative to hasselling with keyboard remapping or using the Insert->symbols menu, or indeed use Ctrl keys, etc. Thanks again, Bill. Cindy, Thanks for taking a look at my post. Since posting I managed to figure out the solution to my problem. Once installed, the international character toolbar has a general characters sets menu. Mine was shut off. To turn it back on you just use Tools->Customize->Commands->Toolbars and activate the character sets menu. Then using Select Sets you can choose from a menu of the 26 available languages -- you can add character sets from Basque to Turkish. In my case, there was an additional problem that my Microsoft Word was somehow corrupted so that the Character sets menu I just referred to wasn't available. I had to use the Help->Detect and Repair menu option a few times before the international character toolbar was installed properly and I could choose from the available character sets. For people who have Word 2003 and need one of the 26 (European) character sets, the international character toolbar is a much more convenient alternative to hasselling with keyboard remapping or using the Insert->symbols menu, or indeed use Ctrl keys, etc. Thanks again, Bill. Hi Bill, > Since posting I managed to figure > out the solution to my problem. Glad to hear it. And thanks for posting the details (which I've marked to "keep" for the next poor soul with the same problem) :-) Cindy Meister |
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