Using Indica with Outlook Express

For using Indica with Microsoft Outlook Express, just follow the simple steps mentioned below.
1.

Open Microsoft Outlook Express.

2.

Click on the New Mail icon to compose a new mail message.

3.

Once youve typed the recipients address in the To, CC and the Subject fields, you are ready
to type your message.

4.

Click in the message box, the lower part of the window. As soon as you do so, the toolbar would
become active.

5.

Change the font to the corresponding languages font (e.g. Chanakya2k for Hindi, Panchari2k for
Malayalam, Krishna2k for Gujarati and so on) by either dropping down the list and selecting the
font or by directly typing the font name in the box.
You can use the formatting toolbar to format the text as you would do with mails in English or
other language (see figure below).

6.

Set the point size if you so desire.

7.

Change the keyboard (eg. press CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + H for Hindi, K for Kannada, G for
Gujarati and so on).

8.

Now you can start typing the contents of the message (see figure below).

Tip
You can use F2 as a toggle key within an application to change the keyboard from Roman to
Hindi (or Devanagari) and vice versa.