Re: Overstrike not working

Yes, I believe the Alt+X shortcut was introduced in Word 2002, and
unfortunately Word's Help on fields (or generally) is not always outstanding
even in the English-language version; translated versions suffer even more
from being rushed into production.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Kuko" <ups@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:30:14 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
> <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Alt+0xxx works only for ASCII characters. Unicode characters (anything
above
> >0255) must be inserted a different way. You can insert them from the
Insert
> >Symbol dialog or using 0113, Alt+X, and 0301, Alt+X. For more, see
> >http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm
>
> I've done it. Thank you very much. Very nice. The Alt-X thing
> doesn't work. The text on the URL you provided talks about Word 2002,
> so I guess my Word 2000 can't do it. Anyway, I'm quite happy. Thanks,
> again.
>
> >Without seeing the syntax of the EQ \o field you're actually using, I
can't
> >tell you why it's not working, but if you're in Europe, you may need to
use
> >a semicolon between the characters instead of a comma.
>
> Yes. That was the problem. I'm using the spanish version of Office
> 2000. The help about the \o switch, however, still talks about commas,
> not semicolons. This may be a mistake.
>
> Regards.

.

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