Re: Printing Spanish diacritical marks.

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Are you using the same font in both documents? TrueType, BTW, is the type of
font you are most likely using in each case. TrueType and PostScript Type 1
are among the types of fonts Word can use (it can also use printer-resident
fonts).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Dean" <Dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F07A67B0-0882-4B87-8810-B440653F178C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've never heard of TrueType but will look it up. What I did - for now -
was
> go to an old Word 97 doc, selected words that have the (printable)
accented
> uppercase characters, and pasted them onto the document I was working on.
> Then I did a search and replace for the words I needed. Laborious as the
> dickens, but it worked. Thanks for your help.
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
> > This may be a printer driver issue. If the printer is using resident
fonts,
> > the fonts may not contain the accented uppercase characters (though this
> > seems unlikely). If that were the case, you could get around it by
printing
> > TrueType as graphics (most printer drivers have a setting that allows
you to
> > do this).
> >
> > There is a setting on the Edit tab of Tools | Options regarding accented
> > uppercase in French, but regardless of what it signifies, it would be
> > irrelevant to Spanish. Another possibility would be line spacing; there
are
> > a number of Compatibility Options that address whether space is added
for
> > underlines, superscripts, etc., and those settings might affect whether
> > accents would have room to print on uppercase letters.
> >
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
> > all may benefit.
> >
> > "Dean" <Dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:18FAB761-877F-4DF0-B690-AE019C9D0771@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > In moving from Word 97 to Word 2002 I notice that upper case capital
> > letters
> > > in Spanish print without the accent, although the accents show in the
> > > on-screen document. How do I get the accents to print?
> > > --
> > > Dean
> >
> >

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