Configuring your computer

The instructions for activating Ukrainian as an input language on a computer running Windows can be found in the Windows Help facility. For example, if you have Windows XP, click the Start button, and then Help and Support. Using the Search box find “Add another language” and click on the link which appears under Suggested topics. The instructions should be displayed on the right-hand side and will guide you through a simple process to activate Ukrainian as an input language in addition to English (assuming this is your default input language).

The above process makes available a new keyboard layout which associates Ukrainian characters with the keys on your physical keyboard. You now need a method of switching between the English and Ukrainian keyboard layouts as required. There are two main ways of doing this.

Firstly, you can use the language icon which should have appeared on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen. By default the icon will display “EN” for English. Click on it to display a menu allowing you to select “UK” for Ukrainian.

Alternatively, you can switch between the languages by pressing an appropriate sequence of keys. The default key sequence for this is configured when you add the Ukrainian input language as described above. If you wish, you can change the sequence as described on the Windows XP Help page entitled “To customize key sequences for input languages” (search for “customize key sequences”).