Re: French guillemets with find / replace?
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Date: 06/21/04
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:04:21 GMT
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:55:50 -0700, "Netguy"
<netguyrocks@netscape.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to make French guillemets (quotation marks) via Find /
>Replace using U.S. Word XP?
>
>So far, marking the text as "French (France)" and either using American
>quotation marks or French guillemets results in American quotation marks.
I don't have Word XP, but I'll try:
Short answer:
You probably need to turn off an option. This method is from Word
2000:
Tools / AutoCorrect / AutoFormat as you type /
under Replace as you type
turn off "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes"
Long-term answer:
Switch to the US International keyboard layout, and obtain guillemets
using Right-Alt-[ and Right-Alt-]
If you type in French often, then you should probably change your
keyboard layout in the Windows Control Panel. I work in both English
and Spanish and I use the US-International layout all the time,
without switching any keyboards.
- free
- allows access to almost all characters in Western European languages
without any other add-ins
- non-alphabetical characters (#$%+_, etc.) match what's printed on
the key
- works in all applications, such as Excel, Word, email, web pages
It has two main effects. One, certain keys become "dead keys".
Nothing happens when you press them, until you press another key. For
example, single-quote ' followed by e results in é.
Two, it changes the function of the right-side Alt-key. You hold this
key and press other letters, to get other characters, for example:
right-alt-a gives á, right-alt-,(comma) gives ç,
A more complete description of this keyboard layout is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B306560
There are only a few disadvantages. The main one is, you have to
press another key if you actually need one of the characters on a dead
key ( such as single quote ', caret ^, etc.) That annoys some French
writers, because of combinations like l'alliance. If you type it as
usual, you get lálliance instead. However, I found it very easy to
adapt to this.
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