I want to download macrons for a hyphen over letters (Maori)

[shorttoes]

I am New Zealander and need to type up assignments using the Maori language,
which have macrons. This is a hyphen over the letter to lengthen the vowel,
which saying the word.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

These characters are already built-in, you do not need to download them.
Look up "Symbols" in the Word help for more information.

When you find each symbol you need, assign it to a keystroke so you can get
to it easily next time. Look up "Customize" in the Word help for more.

I am New Zealander and need to type up assignments using the Maori language,
which have macrons. This is a hyphen over the letter to lengthen the vowel,
which saying the word.

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[Jezebel]

As John says, they are already there. It might pay, also, to look at
www.unicode.org -- there are now standards for very many languages
(including Maori) with which you might as well be consistent.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can find vowels with macron and breve in the Latin Extended-A character
subset in Insert | Symbol. For example, A and a with macron are at U0100 and
U0101, E and e at U0112 and U0113, etc. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm for tips on inserting
these special characters.