Spanish accents

[Richard Reid]

Typing option + e, release, then type the vowel needed normally results in
an é. This works fine in Word but occasionally it stops working. Even though
other vowels can be accented, the letter e all of a sudden stops accepting an
accent. Even if I change the keyboard key assignment to Spanish to reduce
the number of keystrokes to get acute accents (left bracket key, release,
then type vowel --two keystrokes instead of three), the e refuses to take
this accent mark as it had been doing before. I must resort to the tedium of
Insert > Symbol to insert é. If I open a new document, typing é again
becomes possible. I have had this same occasional difficulty in Powerpoint
as well. Why does Word suddenly stop allowing the typing é at times, even
though I can continue typing á, í, ó, ú?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Richard,

Typing option + e, release, then type the vowel needed normally results in
an é. This works fine in Word but occasionally it stops working.

I use these shortcuts hundreds of times everyday and they always work
fine for me. Is Word the only application affected ?? I remember seeing
similar problems in PPT a while ago. Is Office up to date on your
computer ?? It should be in 10.1.5

Corentin

 

[rreid66]

Hi Richard,



I use these shortcuts hundreds of times everyday and they always work
fine for me. Is Word the only application affected ?? I remember seeing
similar problems in PPT a while ago. Is Office up to date on your
computer ?? It should be in 10.1.5

Corentin

Yes, Office is up to date with 10.1.5. You mentioned Powerpoint. Just
today, after using the option + e combination to get é countless times
in a PPT presentation, suddenly this combination spontaneously began
making line demotions. This malfunction has ocurred several times. The
other accented vowels are not affected. As to Word, I also use this
shortcut unnumbered times, then without warning this problem shows up.

Richard

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Yes, Office is up to date with 10.1.5. You mentioned Powerpoint. Just
today, after using the option + e combination to get é countless times
in a PPT presentation, suddenly this combination spontaneously began
making line demotions. This malfunction has ocurred several times. The
other accented vowels are not affected. As to Word, I also use this
shortcut unnumbered times, then without warning this problem shows up.

Really weird. I sure don't have thee same problem. Are you using the US
keyboard layout or another one ???


Corentin