If you are person who need to write in more than one language, or you live in foreign country, or you are simply a translator, you'll need multiple keyboard languages in your operating system. To use them, first you need to know how to add them, and then, how to change/switch them efficiently.
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So, how to add and change languages? Click on your operating system to jump to proper section:
Add input sources. On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input Sources. Click the Add button, then search for a language (such as Chinese, Simplified). If it has an input source (such as Handwriting), select one or more. In OS X = 10.9: go to System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts. On the left sidebar, click on Input Source. In OS X Language & Text Input Sources. Click on the Keyboard Shortcuts. Here you can define a shortcut for switching to the previous/next input source language. How to change the keyboard input language on your Mac Step 1. Open System Preferences. There is more than one way to open System Preferences, but one of the simplest is to. In the System Preferences window, click the Keyboard option. Choose the Input Sources tab. Today, I found out how easy it is to change the language by easily using just a schort cut on a MacBook Keyboard! Just check out the 5 following steps! Just go to “System Preferences”. Choose “Keyboard”. On the top of the “Keyboard” window, choose “Keyboard Shortcuts”. To switch between the keyboard input languages, you can use the Language bar to select the language you want to use. In the language bar, click on the name of the language that is currently selected. Then, in the menu that pops up, with the list of installed languages, click on the new language that you want to use.
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Adding keyboard language
1. Open Spotlight (Cmd + space) and type 'system', then click on System Preferences, or click on Apple in top left corner of the screen and choose System Preferences from menu.
2. Click on Keyboard.
3. Switch from Keyboard to Input Sources tab, and then click on + (plus) button in bottom left corner of the window.
4. From popup choose desired language from left list, and then choose particular layout for this language from right list. Finally, click on Add button to add this language to your system.
5. You're done :)
Switching keyboard language
There is no quick method of doing this out of the box in Mac OS X. You need to manually assign keyboard shortcut to the 'switching' action.
1. Go to Keyboard in System Preferences.
2. From Keyboard switch to Shortcuts tab.
3. Click on Input Sources on the left list and check Select next source in Input menu. You'll see a little warning, because this keyboard shortcut is already used by Spotlight.
4. Click on Spotlight on the left list and uncheck Show Finder search window. Now the warning is gone.
5. That's it. Now you can switch languages by using Cmd + Opt + Space shortcut :)
Adding keyboard language
1. Click on Start menu and choose Control Panel.
2. Click on Clock, Language and Region.
3. Switch to Keyboards and languages tab and click on Change keyboards button.
4. Under Installed services, click Add button.
5. Double-click on language you want to add, then double-click on text services you want to add, and - finally - select the text services options you want to add. Click OK button.
6. That's it :)
Switching keyboard language
To set this up, right-click on the taskbar (the gray bar at the bottom on screen) and from menu choose Toolbars, and then click Language Bar. Language Bar will show up on the taskbar. Now to switch language click on language name next to little keyboard icon and from list, select desired language.
Windows 7
Adding keyboard language
1. Click on Start menu and choose Control Panel.
2. Click on Clock, Language and Region.
3. Switch to Keyboards and languages tab and click on Change keyboards button.
4. Under Installed services, click Add button.
5. Double-click on language you want to add, double-click the keyboard you want to add, and select text services options you want to add. Click OK button.
6. That's it :)
Switching keyboard language
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To set this up, right-click on the taskbar (the gray bar at the bottom on screen) and from menu choose Toolbars, and then click Language Bar. Language Bar will show up on the taskbar. Now to switch language click on language name next to little keyboard icon and from list, select desired language.
Windows 8 / 8.1
Adding keyboard language
1. Use Windows + W keyboard shortcut to bring Search. In the search field type 'language', then from the search results, on the left, click on Language.
2. In the Language window, click on Add a language link.
3. In the Add languages window find desired language from the list, select it, and click Add button. Some languages are expandable, so select particular language layout you want to use.
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4. You're done :)
Switching keyboard language
To switch keyboard languages simply use Windows + Space shortcut.
Windows 10
Adding keyboard language
Input Language Keyboard Mac
1. Use Windows + W keyboard shortcut to bring Search. In the search field type 'language', then from the search results, on the left, click on Language.
2. In the Language window, click on Add a language Free download windows 7 product key generator. link.
3. In the Add languages window find desired language from the list, select it, and click Add button. Some languages are expandable, so select particular language layout you want to use.
4. You're done :)
Switching keyboard language
To switch keyboard languages simply use Windows + Space shortcut.
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This trick I randomly came across while playing around with keyboard short cuts in Finder. If anybody has more than one input language with their keyboard, for example a Dvorak keyboard set up and a ‘normal’ keyboard set up, it can be quite useful to switch between the two inputs easily. I normally do this via the little drop down menu present in my menu bar, however there is a short cut which has some cool effects. In this post I am going to show you how this keyboard short cut works, how you can turn off the short cut for changing your input keyboard selection, and how to change it. This post is a small mash up of some small things, some of which may be new, some of which may be the solution to an existing problem of yours, which you may not know how to solve.
Changing Input Sources
If you want to use more than one language as you input source, for example the normal qwerty and possibly Dvorak, you can change this via the Language & Text > Input Sources option. Here you can select all of the different languages you want, simply check the tick boxes. This will add them to the list of input options for you Mac. It simply changes what comes out when you press a certain key. I used this when I knew quite a bit of Dvorak and was semi-useful, its probably better suited if you have the keys in the right place to start with.
Input Selection Short Cut
If you have more than one short cut it may be advantageous to switch between them. This can be done by pressing the Command + Space, if you hold down the short cut for a couple of seconds a selection box will appear. This can be used to scroll through the various selection. You can scroll either by the arrow keys or pressing the space bar, at all times hold the command key.
Although the image above is poor, it should normally appear in the middle of the screen semi transparent and looking awesome as these sort of pop ups do. If you press Option + Command + Space, it will cycle through the list backwards, however no input will appear. For the past I don’t no how long my keyboard input selection would randomly change without warning as I smashed my hands over the keys in random fits of rage. I never bothered to find the problem and fix it, and only realised today that this section of the System Preferences was causing it, as a result it can be quite useful to change it, especially if this is happening frequently.
Changing The Default Input Language Short Cut
Changing this short cut is simple, open up Keyboard in System Preferences, and select Keyboard Shortcuts. Under Keyboard & Text Input de-select the options at the bottom of this list. You could change them if you feel the need.
Conclusion
To conclude this post may not be useful to many people, however if you find that your keyboard input is suddenly changing this will probably be the problem. For ages my keyboard input would change and I didn’t know what was going one. I was really pleased today when I found the solution. I originally started using the keyboard input selector back in Tiger and haven’t looked at it since today, hence I didn’t notice the large keyboard short cut text showing the solution to my very mundane problem.
If you have a similar sort of story or a related tip, please leave a comment below.
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