@ in Word

[Leo Kerner]

I have a Spanish keyboard and most it works ok. Same keys have three
characters, and the third character seems to be selected when I press
Control and Alt together with the key. But at times nothing happens- the
one I am certain about is the @ in Word or Outlook with Word as editor.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Leo

 

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS]]

Try using the Right Alt (aka AltGr) key instead of Ctrl+Alt since Word often
takes over use of the Ctrl character.


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MichKa [MS]
NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies

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[Joseph Meehan]

I have a Spanish keyboard and most it works ok. Same keys have three
characters, and the third character seems to be selected when I press
Control and Alt together with the key. But at times nothing happens-
the one I am certain about is the @ in Word or Outlook with Word as
editor. Any ideas?
Regards,
Leo

Another possibility is that the font you are using does not have the
character you are trying to use. Fonts do not all have the same characters,
and some may map them to different keys.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Leo,

I have a Spanish keyboard and most it works ok. Same keys have three
characters, and the third character seems to be selected when I press
Control and Alt together with the key. But at times nothing happens- the
one I am certain about is the @ in Word or Outlook with Word as editor.

The European keyboards have an "Alt-Gr" key instead of the Alt key to the
right of the spacebar, and this is what we use to access this third set of
characters. I don't know why some wouldn't work for you... (on my Swiss
German keyboard Alt-Gr+2 = @)

If you hold ALT, then on the numeric keypad press, in sequence: 0, 6, 4

is the @ inserted? This should work in all applications, BTW.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Leo Kerner]

Thanks, it works....bit hard on the fingers though---
Cheers,
Leo

 

[Leo Kerner]

Yes, Alt-Gr+2 = @) works, but Alt+2 = @) does not. Not in words, not all the
time but yes sometimes. Alt 064 is the ascii code and does work, but it's
awkward.
Thanks,
Leo