How do I do diacritical marks (i.e. accents, umlauts, etc.) in Ou.

[Edmond Johnson]

I write many multi-lingual e-mails and I need to be able to easily add
diacritical marks like German umlauts or French accents. This is very easy
to do in Word, but for some reason the commands do not seem to have been
consistently implemented. Currently the only way I know to do this is using
the Character Map; cutting and pasting from another document; using the very
awkward and rather hard to remember unicode sequences (alt+####); or changing
my keyboard layout to an alternate layout depending on what langauge I'm
using. None of these are convient or clean solutions for frequent and casual
use. Any suggestions? I guess the best possibility would be if someone knew
how to make the Word commands (e.g. ctrl + ":" followed by letter = umlauted)
work in Outlook. I'm really shocked the none of the Microsoft help (and I've
spent hours searching) has been even slightly relevant.

Thanks!

 

[Kenneth]

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:41:02 -0700, "Edmond Johnson" <Edmond

I write many multi-lingual e-mails and I need to be able to easily add
diacritical marks like German umlauts or French accents. This is very easy
to do in Word, but for some reason the commands do not seem to have been
consistently implemented. Currently the only way I know to do this is using
the Character Map; cutting and pasting from another document; using the very
awkward and rather hard to remember unicode sequences (alt+####); or changing
my keyboard layout to an alternate layout depending on what langauge I'm
using. None of these are convient or clean solutions for frequent and casual
use. Any suggestions? I guess the best possibility would be if someone knew
how to make the Word commands (e.g. ctrl + ":" followed by letter = umlauted)
work in Outlook. I'm really shocked the none of the Microsoft help (and I've
spent hours searching) has been even slightly relevant.

Thanks!

Howdy,

Maybe I am missing something here, but why not just set Outlook to use
Word as your email editor...?

HTH,

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I write many multi-lingual e-mails and I need to be able to easily add
diacritical marks like German umlauts or French accents. This is
very easy to do in Word, but for some reason the commands do not seem
to have been consistently implemented. Currently the only way I know
to do this is using the Character Map; cutting and pasting from
another document; using the very awkward and rather hard to remember
unicode sequences (alt+####); or changing my keyboard layout to an
alternate layout depending on what langauge I'm using. None of these
are convient or clean solutions for frequent and casual use. Any
suggestions? I guess the best possibility would be if someone knew
how to make the Word commands (e.g. ctrl + ":" followed by letter =
umlauted) work in Outlook. I'm really shocked the none of the
Microsoft help (and I've spent hours searching) has been even
slightly relevant.


Thanks!

Perhaps OT, but see PopChar? A very nice Mac utility now available for
Windows. Nicer than charmap.
http://www.macility.com/products/popcharwin/