Four Ways to Input Chinese Characters

I. Use the freeware Penless Chinese learning tool. Download from: http://www.penlesschinese.org/download.html

II. Using NJSTAR 5.0 (evaluation version). Download from: http://njstar.com/njstar/chinese/download.php

III. Using Microsoft IME

To check if your system has Chinese fonts. 

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/howto/howtoview.htm

Install Chinese IME (for Windows XP)

http://www.andante.org/ime_winxp.html

Install Chinese IME (for Windows 2000)

http://www.andante.org/ime_win2k.html

IV. Using Online Input Programs (if you can see characters, but don't have input method, go online, type Chinese text and copy-paste to Word or your email.) http://www.inputking.com/  http://chinese.cari.com.my/ime/ or http://www.tycool.com/ctools/dingding/contents.html