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Language Learning Center
Smullin Hall
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301

(503) 375-5492 voice
llc@willamette.edu


Hours
Monday-Thursday: 8am-9pm
Friday: 8am-5pm
Saturday: 11am-4pm
Sunday: 5-11pm

chinese writing & grammar

Chinese word processing in the LLC There are 15 computers in the LLC lab at Willamette University. Each computer is equipped with Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP is installed on each computer.

Microsoft Word English (United States) Keyboard

Typing in Chinese

Select Chinese (PRC) from the bottom right side of the toolbar menu.










In the language menu bar, click on Context menu and select properties to check
the settings for Simplified Chinese IME . It is recommended to select sentence
mode, full pinyin, and incomplete choices. Leaning and user-defined phrase
should be enabled.

Type pinyin in a sentence. The computer will automatically select characters.
The underlined sentence means choices are available. Press enter to confirm the
correct choice.

Press the shift key to switch from Chinese and English input.

Press ctrl+space to switch between the Chinese keyboard and English keyboard.

Use the soft keyboard feature for rare punctuation. ( See "Tone marks onto pinyin")













Proofread

  1. To use the proofreading tools to proofread in Chinese, highlight the selected
    text for proofreading, then go to the "Tools" menu, select "Language" and
    click on "Set language."
  2. Select "Chinese" from the dialog box that appears.
  3. Click on "Spelling and Grammar" under the "Tools" menu to proofread the selected text.
Tone marks onto pinyin
  1. Change the language indicator in the task bar to Chinese (CH).
  2. Choose the soft keyboard icon from the language bar.
  3. Right click on the soft keyboard when it appears on your screen.
  4. Choose Pinyin when the vertical menu appears with options for the soft
    keyboard.
  5. Click on the desired letter with the desired Pinyin tone mark.

Adding words to the system dictionary

Edit off-line phrase tool

While entering a phrase in a document, select it while underlined and press Enter .

Typing Chinese in 2000/XP - U of the Redlands
Installing Chinese in 2000/XP
- U of the Redlands
Reference Materials for Multilingual Computing