Adding the Hebrew Input Locale or Keyboard Layout in Windows 2000
From Start menu, select Settings then Control Panel.
Start Keyboard and select the Input Locales tab sheet.
Click the Add... button.
Select Hebrew as the Input locale and Keyboard layout/IME and click OK.
Make sure Enable indicator on taskbar is checked and click OK.
After adding the Hebrew input locale or keyboard layout, you can click the indicator (
) located on the right side of the taskbar to switch among installed keyboard layouts/IMEs. You can also use hot keys as listed in Control Panel/Keyboard/Input Locales/Hot keys for input locale. (The default hot key is Alt+Shift.)
The Hebrew Keyboard Layout
This interactive keyboard layout represents the standard Israeli keyboard, which is used for all Microsoft software that is Unicode compliant. Software such as RLIN Terminal for Windows incorporates a slightly different layout. See the RLIN documentation for details on how it differs.
To see different keyboard states, move the mouse over state keys such as
,
or
. You can also lock or unlock those keys by clicking them.
Different characters are available in different keyboard states. For example, the nikudot can be found by locking the
Hebrew Keyboard Tutor
Now that you've become acquainted with the Hebrew Keyboard, why not learn to touch type in Hebrew using The Hebrew Keyboard Tutor.