Adding a hacek to a letter in Word 2004

G

gpaine

I need to add a hacek (a letter with a little v on top as an accent) to
some foreign words in Palatino. I recall using a formula of some sort
in Work 98 but I don't recall it or where I found it. Can anyone be of
assistance?

Thanks so much.
 
M

macropod

Hi,

Did you try Insert|Symbol?

Cheers

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


| I need to add a hacek (a letter with a little v on top as an accent) to
| some foreign words in Palatino. I recall using a formula of some sort
| in Work 98 but I don't recall it or where I found it. Can anyone be of
| assistance?
|
| Thanks so much.
|
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Word 2004 implements full Unicode, so the most common 32,000 characters are
right there on the keyboard (if only you can find them....)

In Unicode, a hacek is named a "caron". I don't know why: I guess the
language that uses carons got to name the thing.

You will find them in the Latin Extended A subset of Unicode.

On your menu bar you see your national flag. Click it to reveal the
drop-down menu. Enable the Character Palette. Find your character and
insert it. For example: ì È è

Read the Word Help topic " Ways to insert symbols and special characters".
You can set each of the international characters you are interested in up as
a keystroke or as an autocorrect, or you can remember the hexadecimal code
for it and insert it by typing the hex code. Choose the method that best
suits your working style. Most of us would probably use autocorrect.

For example: replace #cv with è

You can also look up AutoCorrect in the Word Help.

Hints: An Autocorrect Entry must be three characters to work properly. It
should begin with a character that is unlikely to occur in your text, to
prevent unwanted misfires.

Hope this helps


I need to add a hacek (a letter with a little v on top as an accent) to
some foreign words in Palatino. I recall using a formula of some sort
in Work 98 but I don't recall it or where I found it. Can anyone be of
assistance?

Thanks so much.

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Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
 
J

John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

He probably did... It's not there :) (At least, not with the default
fonts it isn't...)


Hi,

Did you try Insert|Symbol?

Cheers

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D

Daiya Mitchell

Minor side note:
Hints: An Autocorrect Entry must be three characters to work properly.
I think AutoText has to have at least three or four characters to bring
up an AutoComplete prompt, but I have plenty of two-letter
AutoCorrects. Never tried a single letter.

Daiya
 
P

Phillip Jones

John said:
Word 2004 implements full Unicode, so the most common 32,000 characters are
right there on the keyboard (if only you can find them....)

In Unicode, a hacek is named a "caron". I don't know why: I guess the
language that uses carons got to name the thing.

I guess they got caroned away. ;-)
You will find them in the Latin Extended A subset of Unicode.

On your menu bar you see your national flag. Click it to reveal the
drop-down menu. Enable the Character Palette. Find your character and
insert it. For example: e( C( c(

Read the Word Help topic " Ways to insert symbols and special characters".
You can set each of the international characters you are interested in up as
a keystroke or as an autocorrect, or you can remember the hexadecimal code
for it and insert it by typing the hex code. Choose the method that best
suits your working style. Most of us would probably use autocorrect.

For example: replace #cv with c(

You can also look up AutoCorrect in the Word Help.

Hints: An Autocorrect Entry must be three characters to work properly. It
should begin with a character that is unlikely to occur in your text, to
prevent unwanted misfires.

Hope this helps

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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]

Jeez: I thought our Washington ones were bad... :)


I guess they got caroned away. ;-)

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