Special (international) characters

[NewsReader2K]

I have an old laptop with Win95 & Word97 installed.
It had been programmed (not by me) to automatically type ( é )by pressing
the ctrl+e keys.

Without programming it's necessary to type ctrl+' (letter) to get the
Apostrophe.

I have a computer with WinXP and would like to program Windows/Word to do
the same thing.

Anyone have a clue on how to do this?

Any info regarding this would be greatly appreciated.

Thx.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi NewsReader2K,

I have an old laptop with Win95 & Word97 installed.
It had been programmed (not by me) to automatically type ( é )by pressing
the ctrl+e keys.

Without programming it's necessary to type ctrl+' (letter) to get the
Apostrophe.

I have a computer with WinXP and would like to program Windows/Word to do
the same thing.

Anyone have a clue on how to do this?

There's more than one way to do it, but this would be my preference:

1. Look in Insert/Symbol, the "(normal text)" entry. Find that symbol.

2. Click on the Shortcut Key button

3. This is where you can assign a shortcut key to the character. Make sure
the cursor is in the "Press new shortcut key" box, then press Ctrl+E. Note
that it is probably already assigned to center align paragraphs. Click the
Assign key to change the assignment to the symbol.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Klaus Linke]

.... or, if you're from the US (just guessing from the nyc domain name),
maybe change to an International keyboard.
This has lots of AltGr combos for characters like é (AltGr+e).

Klaus

 

[NewsReader2K]

Thank You..

That worked like a charm..

Hi NewsReader2K,

There's more than one way to do it, but this would be my preference:

1. Look in Insert/Symbol, the "(normal text)" entry. Find that symbol.

2. Click on the Shortcut Key button

3. This is where you can assign a shortcut key to the character. Make sure
the cursor is in the "Press new shortcut key" box, then press Ctrl+E. Note
that it is probably already assigned to center align paragraphs. Click the
Assign key to change the assignment to the symbol.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)


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