Re: Lots of Umlauts

James wrote to jeremyNLSO on Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:43:38 -0500:

j>> Having recently started some consulting work in Germany, I
j>> now have a responsibility to type documents in German. ,
j>> but I find that it's outrageously difficult to add the
j>> German special characters to documents using the "Character
j>> Map" utility. I desperately need a method to enter letters
j>> that don't appear in English, specifically a-, o-, and
j>> u-with umlauts (upper and lower case), as well as the
j>> german double s that is the same as the Greek beta.
JS>  j
JS> Try Help on International Characters in Word. It is not
JS> too difficult to enter most non-English accents using the
JS> CTRL key. The symbols are fairly obvious and easy to
JS> remember. For example, CTRL + : followed by the letter
JS> gives the umlauted letter and the methods for accents and
JS> tildes are similar. CTRL + & followed by s gives the German
JS> double s tho' that is not so easy to remember.

I think the actual Help topic is Shortcut Keys for International Characters. You might also want to look into using autocorrect to set up something like a two letter code for common characters. For example, I have set up ~C to be automatically replaced by ºC (degree sign C) since I never seem to remember that ALT + 0186 is the degree sign on the US keyboard.
James Silverton. 

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