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What's New:
November 4, 2009

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What's in the Student Labs (U.P.)

  1. The Phonetic Keyboards are installed in the Windows and Mac labs along with SIL Phonetics fonts.
  2. Global Writer has been installed in the Windows labs. Go to Start » International Language Utilities
  3. Russian transliteration keyboards are available in the Windows and Mac labs.
  4. Greek Polytonic (Ancient Greek) keyboards are available on both Windows and Macintosh.
  5. The University Park CLC Student labs include foreign language keyboarding utilities installed for both the Windows and Macintosh platform. See the Keyboards section for details on how to activate them.
  6. Microsoft Office products can be configured to allow spell-checking in multiple languages. See the Microsoft Utilities page for more details.
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