More on those foreign accents

Word 2003 (and some earlier ones) provides key combinations for several characters - for foreign accents, in particular. Essentially, you first type the accent using a Ctrl key combination and then follow this with the required letter. I’ve set out below some of what's available:

Accent	Control Key	Following Letters	Example
acute	Ctrl '	a, e, i, o, u (and d)	é (and ð)
cedilla	Ctrl ,	c	ç
circumflex	Ctrl ^	a, e, i, o, u	ê
grave	Ctrl `	a, e, i, o, u, y	è
tilde	Ctrl ~	a, n, o	ñ
umlaut	Ctrl :	a, e, i, o, u, y	ë

The above also work with capital letters. Note that for some symbols both the Ctrl and Shift keys have to be pressed - eg an umlaut is obtained by Ctrl Shift ;.

Other key combinations are Ctrl @ followed by an a for å; Ctrl & followed by an a, o or s for æ, œ or ß; and Ctrl / followed by an o for ø

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Comments

[Malcolm Sealy]

I found your CTRL list did not work - I found a full list of symbols using ALT and numbers (right hand number pad) so eg ö comes from ALT and 0246.
For a complete list plug in to http://www.coloryourprofyle.com/phade/alt.html

Best regards

[Gaz Gaskell]

Ironically - and I use that without 'irony'! - the very example you use is one of the letters (i & e) that do not take an Umlaut. N.B, higher case for a German noun
However, defined as a DIERASIS, it can used on those letters in French, e.g. "Noel" & "naive".

Yours anally,
(Just what is the scatological inference there?)
GAZ

[Elizabeth]

I click start and a calculator appears on my screen whatever I am doing. Not sure how I gotg it there in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Perhaps you could enlighten everyone.
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