Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:

>> As to common accented (French, German, ...) letters, there's a less
>> "arbitrary" method. From Word's Help:
>
> Of course I cannot see a single one of the resulting characters below.

Yahoo Groups is apparently trashing all UTF-8 text. I have reluctantly
switched back to Latin-1 for postings to this group.

> Where in Word's Help will I find this table? It looks like a Mac
> emulation but with different leading characters. It would be nice if
> this appeared in the "documentation" (meaning aftermarket books)
> somewhere, since Help auxiliaries are useless if you don't already
> know the terms they use for particular functions.

Peter, I already told you:

> Go to Word Help and search for "Insert an international character
> by using a shortcut key." You might be pleasantly surprised.

If you do this JUST ONCE, you will get a nice, handy, printable list of
all the BUILT-IN shortcut key sequences that WinWord defines to allow
you to type certain accented characters (those in the Latin-1
repertoire). You don't need to visit Help for every such accented
character you need to type. You don't need to define your own shortcut
keys, or go to Character Map, or activate On-Screen Keyboard, or type
Alt+X plus a numeric sequence, or install an alternative keyboard
layout, or any of that stuff, if all you need are those characters.

Jelks was kind enough to copy and paste the chart which you could have
gotten from Word Help by following my suggestion.

Now, if you DO need more accented characters that those shown in the
chart, then you will have to resort to one of the alternative measures
listed above. Which solution you choose is up to you.

BTW, I'm currently trying to get used to the "U.S. International"
layout, which redefines the single-quote/double-quote key as a combining
acute accent (unshifted) or diaeresis (shifted). It solves the same
problem as the WinWord solution above, and works in all Windows
applications, but if you see inappropriate accented characters at the
start of a quote, or inappropriate spacing after one, well, that's my
learning curve.

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/