How to type in Hindi in MS-Office, Word, Google, Gmail, Notepad or any other application

From a long time I was looking for an easy input method to type in Hindi which doesn’t require special hardware (Hindi keyboard) or shortcuts which is hard to remember. Here is a very easy solution which will let you type Hindi in any of the applications. Using Google Transliteration IME you will be able to type in your choice of language using a roman keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and Google Transliteration IME will convert the word to its native script.

Software to Type in Hindi

You will require to download and install a small software from [Google Transliteration].
Google Transliteration IME is currently available for 14 different languages -Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.  Just select language of your choice.
After downloading and installing the software you will see a small floating IME toolbar at your desktop .

This toolbar will let you switch between typing mode Hindi or English.
Now wherever you want to enter Hindi (हिन्दी) switch to Hindi mode using the toolbar and keep typing that word in English. Google transliteration software will automatically convert it to Hindi.  [ हिन्दी में लिखना काफी आसान हो गया है. ]

In Windows Live Writer

In MS-Word 2007

Google Search
Above are some of the examples where Google Transliteration IME is used to enter text in Hindi language in different applications.

How to type in Hindi online?

In case you don't know hindi typing you can use hindi typing online tool to convert English to Hindi. You simply need to keep typing hindi text using English and this tool will convert the text in Hindi automitally. Visit English To Hindi typing webite.  Google Hindi Typing Tool