IPA keyboard for Windows

[Rankin, Robert L]

Thanks, George. That's a great technique. That @#$% program that keeps changing my i's to I has to be worth something!!

Now, does anybody have enough clout with Microsoft to get them to fix Word so that we can type phonetic characters directly into their search boxes? It's a gigantic pain in the a** to have to "select", then "copy" and "paste" any phonetic character I need to search on. Seems to me the same typing conventions I use in text ought to work in the search box, but no such luck.

Best,

Bob

> Thanks Bob! Another option in Word (especially for Mac users, who may
not be able to use the Windows keyboard) is to make the AutoCorrect
feature work for you instead of against you. For example, you can have
it change the sequence "o~" to "o" followed by Alt+0328 (ogonek
combining diacritic; requires a Unicode font such as Arial Unicode
MS). Better yet, you can just change the sequence "~~" to the ogonek,
so that you can apply it after any vowel. The same can be done for
other combining diacritics such as accents. Obviously, this approach
works only in Word and will not apply to other programs (unless they
happen to have their own AutoCorrect feature,which would have to be
configured separately).