Phonetercise Express is a teaching tool for ESL teachers. It's a simple on-screen keyboard for Windows PCs, which can be used to assist in creating written phonetic character exercises for students. Phonetercise Express allows the teacher to quickly make and print out professionally looking exercises.
Phonetercise Express can be used with common word processors such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect, as well as other specialized programs that allow for Rich Text Format (rft) input.
Sure, you can download IPA fonts from the Internet. But do you really want to take the trouble to enter characters into your word processor using the hard-to-see Windows Character Map, or complicated character codes with the numeric keypad?