Diacritical marks

M

mugwump305

How can I put diacritical marks on Roman characters in Word 2003? It would
be nice to put standard marks indicating pronunciation (as in the
dictionary), but I especially need to be able to put dots under characters,
e.g. under the rsn in Krsna. These characters are not, as far as I can tell,
included in the Insert -> Symbol menu. Thanks.
 
K

Klaus Linke

For standard emphasis marks (dots under characters), you could also use the
built-in functions:
Selection.Range.EmphasisMark=wdEmphasisMarkUnderSolidCircle
Selection.Range.EmphasisMark=wdEmphasisMarkNone

The "Extended formatting" toolbar has a button (DotAccent) to add/remove
emphasis marks above characters.
There's also a built-in button (CommaAccent) with a nice button face for
adding/removing comma accents (´) above letters.
I haven't found it in Tools>Customize, but you can add it to the menu bar
with
CommandBars("Menu Bar").Controls.Add Id:=2806
and then drag it to some toolbar or menu holding down the Alt-key, or drag
it off to remove it.

(Learned about those commands from Suzanne, btw)

Regards,
Klaus
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

I don't think you learned about them from me because I'm pretty sure I heard
about them from you (and then promptly forgot them).
 

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