Chinese keyboard inaccessible: Help!

[yang123]

Just bought a new lap-top, which came pre-loaded with WINDOWS 11 and OFFICE.   Like its predecessors, it will be used primarily for document creation and editing.  70% in English, 30% in Chinese, often switching between them in a single document.

 

I'd assumed that - like other lap-tops I've had - it would be a simple matter to activate the Chinese keyboard function for WORD, allowing pinyin alphabetic input on the keyboard and Chinese characters to appear on-screen: as done many times before, click on Keyboard Layout, then hit on 'Chinese (Simplified, China'. 

 

Not in this case: that produces a message "Your Windows license only supports one display language" & "Simplified Chinese IME dictionaries are not ready yet".

 

I'd be very grateful for any suggestions of a fix.   

TIA

 

 

 

 

[Nick Carter icp]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/change-windows-11-single-language-display-language/317b355f-c4d3-40e1-a298-81394aba2e25