how type russian

I installed the Russian language and keyboard (on a vista 32 English version) by Start/Control Panel/Clock, Language/Change keyboards/keyboards and languages/settingd/add (Russian language and Russian keyboard).
But I cannot type in Russian, even when I shift+alt to Russian. I tried in vain Wordpad and word2000.
How can I type in Russian??
Thanks in advance, Gerhard

It works now in Word
"Gerhard" wrote:

I installed the Russian language and keyboard (on a vista 32 English version) by Start/Control Panel/Clock, Language/Change keyboards/keyboards and languages/settingd/add (Russian language and Russian keyboard).
But I cannot type in Russian, even when I shift+alt to Russian. I tried in vain Wordpad and word2000.
How can I type in Russian??
Thanks in advance, Gerhard