Quick Tips

· Make a note of the abbreviations used first and then proceed to read the help topics, including these tips.

· The 'caps lock' should be off when you are typing your text. However, you can use capital letters judiciously, whenever needed. For more details, click here.

· You should read and understand key mappings thoroughly .

· Azhagi provides you with 'always-on-top' floaters (Ctrl+F7 and Shift+F7) of the KeyMappings Summary which you can move around and keep on top of any window so that beginners can practise typing in any windows application, seeing the key'mappings side by side.

· Menu by menu, each menu item of azhagi has been explained. Click here to read the same.

· The Frequently Asked Questions section of the help documents provides you answers for the most fequent queries of the users. Whenever you have a problem or question, please do refer to this for a solution/answer.

· You can directly type in Ms-Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Pagemaker, Photoshop Outlook Express, Hotmail, Yahoo! Messenger etc. and see them converted in Tamil.

· Press 'F1' at any time during execution of Azhagi to invoke detailed HELP.

· You can right-click on any area (except the menus and size&color list boxes) of Azhagi and 'What's this?' will pop up. You can click on it and the appropriate help topic will open.

· Tool tips are provided for all possible items. Just move the cursor over any item, wait a moment and you can see the item info.

· If you want the English text you type to be visible (transparent), you should type in ETA only. If you type in TTA , you can effect non-transparent transliteration only. English text you type wont be visible in that case.

· You can use F10 to toggle between English and Tamil. By this way, you can type mixed text (i.e. both English and Tamil)

· There are 3 transliteration modes for Tscii from within Azhagi - Dual Screen, Single Screen, Learner's Keypad

· There are 3 typing modes - Phonetic, Tamilnet99 and Tamil Typewriting.

· When you do TT (i.e. type/edit in ETA), you cant effect any typing/editing in the TTA (Tamil text area) unless you clear off all the text in ETA.

· When you do NTT (i.e. type/edit in TTA), you cant effect any typing/editing in ETA (English text area) unless you clear off all the text in TTA. The keypad keys will be active during NTT only.

· To get ó inbetween a word, type 'nh'. For more such special cases, click here

· Saving a file during NTT creates a single file, whereas saving a file during TT creates 3 files.

· If ever you delete your Tamil file (created during TT) by mistake, never worry. It can be easily recovered from its support file (filename ending with `eb’) or corresponding English file (filename ending with `e`).