Typing Urdu in MS Word or in any Software

Whenever we think to type Urdu only one name came in mind i.e. Inpage. It is good software but it isn’t as vast as compared to MS Word or any other word processor of English. I always thought that I could type Urdu in Microsoft Word. That problem is been solved when Microsoft introduced plenty of Asian languages including Urdu. By installing Urdu we could change complete windows language, now we could type Urdu, but it is still very difficult to type, because the Monotype Keyboard layout is not that easy. It is very difficult to remember each key for every character.

Now we not only can set Urdu language as our default language but also can type Urdu in every software easily. Inpage has a phonetic keyboard layout, it is very easy to remember because like its name almost every key in the keyboard represents the character of Urdu that sounds the same. Now we could install that keyboard layout to type easily.

Here is a step by step process

1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Regional and Language Options
3. Click on languages tab & select the option "Install files for East Asian languages" Install the necessary files from the Windows XP CD
4. Now to change the computer language go to Regional Options tab and change the Language to Urdu
5. To start typing Urdu in any software go to Advanced tab and change the language to Urdu
6. Download Phonetic Keyboard Layout http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/keyboards/CRULPphonetickbv1.1.html
7. Install the software and go to the Languages tab in Regional Settings and click on details button. Select the CRULP phonetic keyboard and you are done.

Now we can type Urdu in any software of Windows

Converting Word or any Printable document into a Mirror document

What is the Mirrored text/image?

If we see something in a mirror it looks like that it has been reversed or flipped. Same thing happened here that when we convert the text it will be flipped over

Example:

Normal Text:

Mirrored Text:

Mirrored text or images are widely used by designers for various Web or printing purposes. We can easily convert by using drawing tools but we cannot find method to convert complete Word or other text documents or from other Office applications.

The easy and effective way to mirror almost every document without losing quality is: to do it with a very commonly used software i.e. “Adobe Acrobat Professional”. You could download it from Adobe website

To convert documents into mirror Just follow the steps and you are done:

Step 1:

Install “Adobe Acrobat Professional” any version (I’m using Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1). If you already have, skip this.

Step 2:

Open the document that you would like to mirror.

Step 3:

Open the print dialog (“Ctrl + P” used for printing almost in every software)

Step 4:

From your printers list choose “Adobe PDF”

Step 5:

Click “Properties” button and from “Layout” Tab press “advanced” button.

Step 6:

From the dialog box expand the “PostScript Options” select “Yes” from “Mirrored output” option & press “Ok”.

Step 7:

Press “print” button a save dialog box will open enter the name and it’s done.

Open the saved Pdf file and it will be mirrored.

Typing a Table in MS Word

Here is a short and simple way of typing a table, instead of the old fashioned draw / insert table command usually taken from the menu. Now for the purpose of creating table you can type a string of “+” and “-” signs. The string starts and ends with the “+” sign and in between we place a series of “-“signs that are required to represent the width of the column and press enter key and it’s done. This creates your one column for the next column or columns after "+" sign continuing with "-" sign upto width of the next column and so on until you finished the desired number of columns.

Example:

Suppose we need a table which has three columns.

So we type:

“+-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+”

Note: The string must be typed without double quote marks.