1. Go to Avro Keyboard web site http://www.omicronlab.

com/avro-keyboard-
download.html

It will look like

2. Click on the green DOWNLOAD NOW image on the screen. You will be led to
the screen shown on next page
3. Click on the Download Now area on the screen. It should start downloading. If
your downloading is blocked, then a message will come near the top of your
screen which will read like this :

To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has blocked this site
from downloading files to your computer.

If you get this message, click on the message. A menu will come up. Choose
“download file” option.

4. Then you will get this pop up window

5. Click on Run button. If the following window shows up, click Run on it

6. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, it will take a few

minutes to download the 11 MB file.

7. While downloading it will show the progress bar

8. Once download has completed, if it asks you to ALLOW the program or
cancel, click on Allow. Then the following screen should show up

9. Click Next You will get this window

10.Click on the circle (radio button) to the left of “I accept the agreement”. Then
click Next. You will get the window below. Click next again.
11.On the next window, click Next again. Now you will get the following window
 Make sure you click on the circle (radio button) next to “ Use Bangla (India)
Language”. Then click Next.

12.You will now get this window

Click on Install button.

13.While installing , it will show the progress bar

14.When installation completes, you will get this window
 Click on Finish button.

15.Set up is complete. Now you will get this screen to configure Avro

Click on Next

16.You will get this

 Click Next

17.Next screen looks like

 Make sure the check mark next to English (Unites States) or English (United
kingdom) is checked like above. Then Click Next.

18.Next screen is
 Select “English to Bangla Phonetic” and hit Next

19.On the next and final screen click Done button.

20.That’s it! You are now a proud owner of Avro keyboard.

How to use Avro to write Bangla? Go to next page

1. Avro has created several things on your computer.

a) There is a bangla “a” icon on your Quick Launch area.

b) There is a “avro” icon on your desktop

c) Your start menu now has “Avro keyboard” option

d) On top right of your desktop/laptop, you will see a transparent

menubar. This is Avro menubar.

2. On the menubar , the first item says “English”. Click on it and it will say
Bangla like বাংলা

3. Now you are ready to type in Bangla. Open your Microsoft Word

4. Make sure that on the Avro menu bar, it shows বাংলা and not English. If it
shows English, click to change it

5. Now click on the little triangle (arrow) to the right of the word English or
বাংলা on the menu bar. It will show a menu. Select “Show active keyboard
layout”.

6. It will pop up the following screen on your computer

7. This screen shows what English letter you have to type in order to get a
Bengali letter on your Word or Orkut or anywhere else.

8. On Word, type aj bangla likhbo . You should see আজ বাংলা িলখব

9. িক োবােডরর সাহােযয সহেজই বাংলা িলখেত পারেবন

10.The default bangla font on Microsoft Word is Vrinda. It is not very nice
looking. A font that I like is Soleimanlipi. You can download it from

http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html

11.Choose Soleimanlipi font, save it in your machine. Then go to the file on

Windows explorer and right click. In the menu, choose Install. That’s it.

12.If you need further assistance in installing the font or anything else, let me
know on the Aaj Sokaler Amontrone (আজ সকােলর আমনেণ) topic.