ODIA TYPING EASY in WINDOWS7

Type Odia in Windows7 without Odia software

Students, professionals and persons who know INSCRIPT keyboard layout typing, they are now kings

Step 1: Go to Control Panel of your computer

Step 2: Choose the program Region and Language

Step 3: Click on the ‘Keyboards and Language’ tab and then click on the Change Keyboards...

Step 4:  Now check that you are on General Tab of the dialogue box and click on the Add... and you will see Add Input Language scroll down list

Step 5: Now scroll the list to get Oriya (India) and click on the + sign to see its full list, then you will see Keyboard, Other

Step 6: Click on the + sign of Keyboard and select Oriya. It means the check box of Oriya has been tick marked

Step 7: Click on the OK button, now you will see OR Oriya (India) keyboard Oriya within Installed Services menu  

Step 8: Click on the Apply tab, then click OK, then OK of main dialogue box

Step 9: Close the Control Panel window and watch the Task Bar (right side icons of Start Bar) showing EN or OR

Step 10: EN is code of English keyboard and OR is code of Oriya keyboard. Activate the OR keyboard and start typing Odia elsewhere on your computer programs like Word Processor, Worksheet etc.

Watch the magic, activating Oriya keyboard is also ensuring Kalinga font in the font menu and showing Odia characters as per your keystrokes.

(N.B. During release of Windows7 OS, the word Oriya had not been renamed as Odia.)

In case of any difficulty, just ask a computer literate person, who has better experience of inside computers

With good wishes

Bimal Prasad, 9937353293, Bhubaneshwar