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Article #4149Re: Accent in Word for Windows 2
From: J Michael Hayes
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:09
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 20:09
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There have been articles in PC MAG or Windows in the last two years about how to do this with almost any Windows program. You change to the international keyboard under the control panel. It gives the right ALT key a special function of allowing a character to be inserted without moving the cursor and/or gives many alpha keys a third character. The article I rmember was done by Livingston (author of "Windows 3.1 Secrets" the specifics for your problem are NOT in this book (at least my edition)). There is a way to set your keyboard for international English. Warning, you better become familiar with the keystrokes used by this setup and be sure that you have not assigned shortcut keys to to these in Windows or other applications. Not sure if your specific character is included. The article includes a keyboard map that I can't find in graphic format. In DOS, keyboard 852, Slavic, Latin II, includes the character you are looking for as 252 UC, 253 lc. The DOS manual gives a Czech Republic keyboard view that has these characters. I have no idea what would happen if you changed keyboards to edit one letter in a previously created document. Another solution, if you are using W4W 2.0x and haven't been bitten by the 6.0 version, is to get WOPR. A great shareware package for 2.0x! It includes a 'compose' macro that lets you combine characters. MS seems to have appropriated every good idea in this shareware package into 6.0 including a better envelope printer, postal bar codes, and a customizable toolbar (the only binary, everything else is in .doc form and Word Basic, so you can study the programs and learn!) $50 with manual and BBS access for updates (like the HP550C envelope macro) I am not affiliated just a happy customer. I won't move up to WORD 6.0 till it runs faster, and MathType, Grammatik, and WOPR are upgraded to work with it better. Hope I got you on the right track. Mike Hayes
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