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Keyboard setup for macrons

A macron is a line above a vowel to indicate that it should be spoken as a long vowel: ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, Ā, Ē, Ī, Ō and Ū.  The Māori word for macron is tohutō (or pōtae - hat). For more detailed information on its use, see Māori Orthographic Conventions.

Windows Vista and Windows 7/8/10

On Windows Vista, the Māori keyboard driver is already installed. You just have to activate it as follows:

    Start Control Panel.
    Click Change keyboards or other input methods (under the Clock, Language and Region heading).
    Click Change keyboard.
    If it already says English (New Zealand) - Maori, then it's already set up. Don't continue!
    Otherwise, click Add.
    Scroll down to English (New Zealand), expand Keyboard, click Show More.
    Find Maori in the list and tick it, then click OK.
    Change the Default input language to English (New Zealand) - Maori.

Now you can easily enter a macronised vowel by pressing ` (the key with ~ on it) and then the vowel. To enter a macronised capital vowel, press `, then hold down shift and press the vowel.
Typing Macrons

Now you can easily enter a macronised vowel by pressing ` (the key with ~ on it) and then the vowel.

    `a = ā

To enter a macronised capital vowel, press `, then hold down shift and press the vowel, e.g.,

    `A = Ā

Note you don't have to hold down ` while you press the vowel, just press ` then press the vowel.
Writing in te reo Māori in Microsoft Word

If you've followed the above instructions, you can already type macrons in Word. However, if you have Word, you may be able to install the Māori language interface pack or proofing tools...
For Office 2013: http://office.microsoft.com/en-nz/language-packs/
For Office 2016: https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Language-Accessory-Pack-for-Office-2016-82ee1236-0f9a-45ee-9c72-05b026ee809f

If you are a fluent speaker, you can configure Word to change the menus from English to Te Reo, but for those less fluent it is still useful to install because it includes a Te Reo Māori spell checker. To use the Spell Checker, you need to mark the text in the document as either English or Māori.

To mark text as Māori, select the text, go to Tools (for older versions of Word) or Review (newer versions), then Language, Set Language, select Māori and choose OK. If you usually type in Māori rather than English, you can click on the Default button before clicking OK.

However, the above is a bit laborious if you regularly mix Te Reo Māori and English in the same document. To easily switch between the two languages as you type, you can set up another Input Language. After doing this, you can simply press a key combination to switch to the other language you are about to type in. To set up two Input Languages:

    Start, Control Panel, Regional and Language Options.
    Click on the Languages tab.
    Click on Details...
    Use the Add and Remove buttons to set up your system so that you have English and Māori languages, both using the Māori keyboard, as follows:

FROM https://kupu.maori.nz/about/macrons-keyboard-setup