An easy-to-read keyboard map here
Nikud typing how-to (which looks fairly tricky to me) here
How to enable Hebrew input in Microsoft Windows 2000 / Word 2000:
1. Assume you have Windows 2000 installed & have the installation CD available.
2. Assume you have Word 2000 installed.
3. Turn on Hebrew "localization" as follows:
- click "Start" -> "Settings" -> "Control Panel"
- select "Regional Options"
- in the "Language Settings" box, scroll down to, and check "Hebrew"
- click "OK"
[you will be prompted to] insert the Windows 2000 installation CD
[you will be prompted to] restart the computer
- once it restarts, bring the "Regional Options" form up again
- click on the "Input Locales" tab
- click "Add...", opens "Add Input Locale" window
- select "Hebrew" in the "Input locale" pull-down menu
- click "OK", returns to "Regional Options"
- click "OK"
You will now see an icon on the taskbar (bottom of the screen) that says
"EN". You can now switch to Hebrew by clicking this icon and choosing
Hebrew. Alternately (and much easier!), you can type ALT-SHIFT to
switch between modes.
I didn't have to do anything to my Word 2000 installation - Hebrew was
automatically enabled once "Hebrew localization" was installed. The
only problems I encountered were:
1. the keyboard layout is not intuitive to an English-speaking typist.
For example, one would expect that typing "M" would produce a "mem",
instead it's a "tzadeh"; "h" should be "hay", instead it's "yod"; and so
forth.
2. CAPS-LOCK affects the typing mode to allow nikudim to be entered; but
it turns off Hebrew letter input. So, you have to be careful with this
key.
I am told by a number of Israelis that "you just get used to it".
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