LEAP OFFICE for typing in regional languages

LEAP Office is a complete word processor designed specially for Indian Languages with an additional ability to provide Indian language Interface to most popular windows based applications. LEAP Office is a result of more than a decade of research in Indian scripts and languages.

Features of LEAP Office

• A person having no experience in typing in Indian Languages can type without any difficulty.
• Allows you to create error free multilingual documents.
• Can present web pages in Indian languages.
• Publish in Indian languages from your desktop.
• Exchange E- mail and fax messages in Indian languages.
• Translate words and phrases from English to Indian languages.
• Extend other windows applications to work in Indian languages.

Starting LEAP Office

1. From the Desktop screen, Double-click LEAP Office icon to start LEAP Office.

Or

Click Start >>All Programs>>LEAP Office>>LEAP Office

2. In the screen that comes next, press Continue to start working with LEAP Office.

3. A dialog box showing some more information on LEAP Office appears press Close button to come out of it.

4. Tips & Tricks of LEAP Office dialog box appears. Press Close button again.

5. LEAP Office main screen comes.

LEAP Office Desktop

How to Type in LEAP Office

There are two methods by which you can type Indian and English characters:

a. Using displayed keyboard in LEAP Office:

• Click View >> Online Keyboard

Or

• Click  icon from the standard bar to activate the Onscreen keyboard if not activated.

When you rest the mouse pointer on any of the buttons an enlarged picture of the button called Balloon Help

shows English and Indian characters that can be typed using this key.

• Check View >>Balloon Help & Tips if Balloon help not activated.
• To enter the lower characters, click at the desired key of the Online keyboard.
• To enter the upper characters, press Shift key and click at the desired key.
• Click Scroll button on the Online keyboard to switch between English and Indian languages.

Editing Text

You may like to edit your text by inserting any missed out text and deleting any unwanted text. You may also like to correct the spelling mistakes that are accidentally made by you.

For the editing of text, LEAP Office provides following tools,

• Finally save the file.

Inserting Pictures in a Document 

• Click Insert >> File. 
• An Insert dialog box appears asking you to enter the name of the bitmap file. 
• Enter the file name that you created in Paint. 

Select the file type as BMP (Windows DIB(BMP) from Insert Files of Type option. For example, Bird.bmp 

• Click on Insert button. 
• Move the paste cursor to where you wish to place the bitmap and click to place the bitmap. 
• To resize the bitmap proportionately, select it and drag the frame edge outward to enlarge the bitmap and inward to shrink it. 
• Use various icons from the Tool bar that comes with it like for center the bitmap horizontally on the page, click icon. 

Quitting LEAP Office 

• Click File >> Exit You come out of LEAP Office to the Desktop screen.