What is an Input method status bar

I. Start and switch of input method

There are two ways to start the input method, one is to switch to different input methods through the mouse click Language bar, and the other is to switch through keyboard shortcuts.

1 Click the Language bar

Typically, the Input method icon currently in use is displayed in the taskbar in the lower-right corner of the screen. If you want to switch input method, you can click the Input method icon to eject the input function menu.

IME status bar

2 Switching Input Method

Select the user familiar with the input method, click the left mouse button, you can start the input method. The Input method status bar is also displayed.

Users can also use keyboard shortcuts to start the input method. Hold down the CTRL key, press the SPACEBAR, and then release the CTRL key, which will also start the input method. Perform the same operation again, the input method is closed again, very convenient to use. If you have more than one input method installed in Windows, you can use the "Ctrl+shift" combination shortcut keys to achieve the switch between different input methods.

　Two. Know the Input Method status bar

Switch to Microsoft Pinyin Input method, the screen will appear on the Input method status bar, which is mainly used to indicate the current input status, you can click them with the mouse to toggle the input state.

1. Toggle button in Chinese and English

There are many small buttons on the status bar, and the icon on the button indicates the current input state. Click these buttons to toggle status. For example, the icon on the display of a "medium" button is the Chinese/English toggle button, click it, the icon into the "English" word, then is the English input state, the input is the English alphabet. Click this button again, switch to the Chinese input state, you can continue to enter Chinese characters.

2. Use the Chinese annotation

If you want to see the role of each button more visually, you can use the Chinese annotation to mark out their functions for easy viewing. Right-click the IME status bar to display the shortcut menu shown in the following illustration.

Click the IME status bar

3. Add Chinese annotation

Click to select the text label, when the input method status bar symbols are added to the Chinese annotation, the meaning of the symbol and function at a glance.

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　Introduction to the three Pinyin input window

Using the Microsoft Pinyin Input method, the system will appear three different windows, used to provide different information, the three Windows are Phonetic window, candidate window and Group Word window respectively.

1 phonetic windows

The phonetic window is used to display and edit the pinyin you type, displaying only the pinyin of one Chinese character at a time, and when the user continues to type syllables, Microsoft Pinyin Input method will display all the input pinyin in the window.

In the phonetic window, if you want to remove the previous pinyin, you can press the BACKSPACE key to complete. To cancel the current phonetic input and close the phonetic window, you can press the ESC key directly.

2 Group Word window

One syllable after the input is complete, continue to enter the following pinyin, and a window appears, usually called the Group Word window. The Group Word window is the Microsoft Pinyin Input method converts the Chinese statement, the user only then converts it all correctly and presses the ENTER key to confirm, can enter the editor actually.

The Group Word window displays up to 32 characters, and when the character is out of range, the first type of content is automatically acknowledged. Users can confirm and close the Group Word window at any time with a space or enter key.

3 Candidate Windows

You can move the cursor to modify text before the text in the Group Word window is not confirmed. If you want to enter the "special studio", type "Nai", the text selection window that appears is the candidate window. Inside the candidate window is the Chinese character of "Nai". To select "Tolerance", press the number key 4, or click the word "tolerance" with the mouse.

In the input process, these three windows are often used, without having to remember the names of these windows.

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　　Four. Pinyin input interface

Microsoft Pinyin Input method to provide users with two different user input interface, that is, the cursor followed the state and the cursor does not follow the state.

1 cursor following

As the name implies, "cursor Follow" is to follow the cursor position to edit the meaning. The cursor follow State refers to the position of the 3 edit window at the current editing cursor and moves as the current edit cursor position moves. In the cursor following state, the Group Word window behaves as a string of underlined text after the editing window is currently inserted into the cursor.

2. Cursor does not follow

The cursor does not follow the state refers to the three edit window position is fixed on the screen, the user first in the system given a group word input, after the input is completed and converted correctly, then insert the converted statements into the current edit cursor position. The Group Word window is a separate window when the cursor does not follow the state.

3 Modify Cursor Follow

Input method default input interface for the cursor following the state, the user can change the following steps: Click the Function button in the Input method status bar, click the "cursor following" option in the pop-up menu, remove the previous check symbol, cancel the cursor following state, and convert the input method interface for the cursor does not follow the state A separate window appears with the cursor not following the state.

　　Five input text

As long as people who have studied Chinese pronunciation, they can use the Microsoft Pinyin Input method to enter Chinese characters. In the input, you can enter pinyin continuously, do not use the pinyin after each word and then hit the space or enter to confirm. When the pinyin of the next word is entered, the previous phonetic alphabet is automatically converted into Chinese characters and appears in the Group Word window. Note that under the cursor following state, the characters in the Group Word window will have an underscore, which means that the current result is not confirmed, when the input is finished, press the space or enter the return key to confirm the input, when the underline disappears, confirm the input results. Below we take the input phrase "the songbirds know Hongguzhizhi" as an example to explain.

1 Open Text Editor

Open the Notepad program and position the cursor in the window blank.

2. Input Pinyin

Switch input method to Microsoft Pinyin Input method, input the whole sentence pinyin "Yanqueanzhihonghuzhizhizai", when the window is displayed as "the Hongguzhizhi of the finches".

Pinyin input text