Keystroke combination for foreign letters

[Swanhild]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

After installing MSOffice into my new iMac I am disappointed that the old keystroke commands for foreign letters and symbols don't seem to be available any more (Word98)
I could highlight the whole document go to "find and replace" type in the letter combination I used for a particular character as a substitute then go to "replace all" and enter the letter combination that was available for the character. (for example french é Alt 0233 or German Alt 0246 ö etc) It replaced all the characters in the whole document.
I MISS IT DREADFULLY! Grateful for any help. Swanhild

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry this doesn't post well, but I'm hopeful that you can decipher it
It's copied from Word 2004 Help on International Characters & for some
reason is sadly missing from Help in 2008;

Insert an international character by using a shortcut key
To produce Press
à, è, ì, ò, ù
À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù OPTION+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
á, é, í, ó
Ã, É, Ã, Ó, Ú OPTION+e, the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û
Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û OPTION+i, the letter
ã, ñ, õ
Ã, Ñ, Õ OPTION+n, the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ
Ä, Ë, Ã, Ö, Ãœ, Ÿ OPTION+u, the letter
Ã¥, Ã… OPTION+a or OPTION+SHIFT+a
æ, Æ OPTION+' (single quotation mark) or
OPTION+SHIFT+' (single quotation mark)
Å“, Å’ OPTION+q or OPTION+SHIFT+q
ç, Ç OPTION+c or OPTION+SHIFT+c
ø, Ø OPTION+o or OPTION+SHIFT+o
¿ OPTION+SHIFT+?
¡ OPTION+1
ß OPTION+s

I don't ever recall being able to use the method you referred to on a Mac —
Alt+[NumericKeypad] is a Windows method. Even so, I've only ever used it
WinWord for characters that weren't available by way of other strokes
[Alt=0182 = ¶, for example]. I've always used the assigned strokes such as
Control+Shift+Colon for ö, Control+` for è, etc.

You might also be interested in taking a look at the OS X Character Map as
well as assigning your own keystrokes plus the use of the AutoText &
AutoCorrect features.

BTW: There's no need to Select ("highlight") All in order to use Find &
Replace. Selecting content is beneficial if you want to limit the activity
to that passage only And if you haven't already discovered it don't
neglect to click the triangle button left of the others to expand the F&R
dialog & explore the additional capabilities it provides based on Formatting
& Special [non-printing] characters.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Swanhild]

Thank you for your answer - it put me on the right track. Problem solved!

 

[CyberTaz]

Glad to hear it!

Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac