Doug Ewell wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim at worldnet dot att dot net> wrote:
>
> >>> Go to Word Help and search for "Insert an international character
> >>> by using a shortcut key." You might be pleasantly surprised.
> >
> > I don't really want to type a 9-word sentence into the search box.
>
> Who does? If you've used searchable help systems before, including
> Windows Help and Google, you probably know that the more specific your
> search term, the more likely you are to hit a match the first time. You
> can type "international character" and probably get close. You can type
> "shortcut key" and probably not get very close, because, as you said,
> Word uses lots of shortcut keys.

It wouldn't have occurred to me in a million years that they call
accented letters "international characters."
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...