Phonetic Russian character input on US-keyboards with Google IME in the LRC

2012/09/05 plagwitz Leave a comment Go to comments

To write Russian phonetically in Cyrillic:
1. Since “input methods”are specific to each window (and automatically switch to that of the window you make active), first open the application you want to write in, preferably MS-Word (has proofing tools for Russian).
3. In the language bar on the lower right, click on “EN”, select “Russian” instead
4. Click on the keyboard symbol and select “Google”:
  1. You first may have to right-click on the language bar on the lower right of your desktop and select “Adjust” to show the keyboard symbol:
5. If you now type in MS-Word Russian (your selection did not “stick” in MS-Word? do the above steps again, eventually it will…) phonetically on a US-keyboard, you will be able to select from suggestions in Cyrillic:
6. Click the desired suggestion to have it entered into MS-Word:
To go back to writing temporarily in English (without changing the entire input method back to English), click the (Cyrillic/Latin) letter symbol on the Google Russian IME menu: and you can enter English (Latin alphabet) without the popup suggesting you Russian equivalents:
To switch from the phonetic input to a floating Cyrillic keyboard,
1. click on the keyboard symbol in the Google Russian IME.
2. Or from the Language bar, switch to the other (Microsoft) keyboard layout for "Russian" (see #4 above), and go to "Start" / "Run" / type OSK, click "OK".