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Mark B - 05 Oct 2004 17:02 GMT

I have a user who is wants Spanish accented characters to
display when she works with Word. All of her settings
are correct as far as her language settings. She used to
be able to type 'Ctrl' then a number set to get the
character to display but she has recently upgraded
Outlook to 2003. Ever since the upgrade she has not been
able to get accents to work in Word. Any help would be
much appreciated. Thanks, Mark

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Doug Robbins - 06 Oct 2004 02:18 GMT

It would be Alt+the appropriate number on the numeric keypad.

If you run a macro containing the following code it will create a table that
will show you the numbers to use:

' Macro created 12-08-98 by Doug Robbins to list symbols that can be
inserted via Alt+keypad

'

ActiveDocument.Tables.Add Range:=Selection.Range, NumRows:=1,
NumColumns:=3

Selection.TypeText Text:="Alt + Numeric Keypad"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Selection.TypeText Text:="Normal Font"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Selection.TypeText Text:="Symbol Font"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Symbol = 33

While Symbol < 256

Selection.TypeText Text:="0" & LTrim$(Str$(Symbol))

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

With Selection

.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol, Font:="Normal",
Unicode:=False

End With

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

With Selection

.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol, Font:="Symbol",
Unicode:=False

End With

Symbol = Symbol + 1

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Wend

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>I have a user who is wants Spanish accented characters to
> display when she works with Word. All of her settings
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> able to get accents to work in Word. Any help would be
> much appreciated. Thanks, Mark

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- 06 Oct 2004 14:56 GMT

Thank you for your response. I didn't mean 'Ctrl' I did
mean the Alt key. That was my mistake. I will attempt
to run this macro and see what it comes up with. Thanks

>-----Original Message-----
>It would be Alt+the appropriate number on the numeric keypad.
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> .InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol,

Font:="Symbol",

>Unicode:=False
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Avelino Lopez - 19 Mar 2005 02:41 GMT

One alternative to Ctrl+# I use is to select US-International as default
keyboard; then pressing simultaneously the right_Alt_key+vowel will give you
the accented version of the vowel. For Spanish right_Alt+n gives you ñ and
right_Alt+Shift+n gives you Ñ

> Thank you for your response. I didn't mean 'Ctrl' I did
> mean the Alt key. That was my mistake. I will attempt
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> >.

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