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How to add a keyboard input language in Windows

Article Last Updated Oct 5, 2016

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In order to use the right-to-left text direction feature in Articulate Storyline, you'll need to add a keyboard for a right-to-left language in Microsoft Windows. Follow the instructions for your version of Windows below.

Windows 8

  1. Press Windows Key+X on your keyboard to display the Tools Menu, and select Control Panel. Or, right-click the lower left corner of your monitor to display the Tools Menu, and select Control Panel.
  2. Go to Clock, Language, and Region > Language.
  3. Click Add a language.
  4. Double-click the language you want to add. 
  5. If you're presented with a list of nationalities for the language you selected, choose a country, and then click the Add button.

Windows 7 or Windows Vista

  1. Go to Start > Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Change keyboards or other input methods.
  2. Click the Change keyboards button.
  3. On the General tab, click the Add button.
  4. Scroll to the language you want to use, and click the plus sign to expand it.
  5. Click the plus sign beside Keyboard, and select the nationality you want to use.
  6. Click OK three times to save your changes.

Here's a brief video screencast of this process:

Windows XP

  1. Go to Start > Control Panel > Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options > Add other languages.
  2. On the Languages tab, click the Details button.
  3. On the Settings tab, click the Add button.
  4. Select the Input language and Keyboard layout that you want to add.
  5. Click OK three times to save your changes.

Here's a brief video screencast of this process:

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