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Need accent marks on vowels, for French-English doc. Help?
Hi & thanks in advance....
I'm trying to create a French 101 vocabulary-list generator, for my college course, but can't figure out how to input the "special characters". For the letter E, for instance, I need to apply at least 4 different accent marks to the vowel. I can do this easily enough in Word 2000, but with Excel 2000, have searched to no avail! I've tried various different hot-key options, no go. RATS! Nevermoore |
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Hi Nevermoore,
The simple one-off way is via Insert|Symbol. If you're doing a lot of this, you might do well to learn the keyboard codes. Here's a way to find them: Put = ROW() in A1 and =CHAR(A1) in A2 & copy both cells down to row 255, you'll get a list of all the characters for whatever font you're using. The accented characters you're after will start around row 192. To insert such a character from the keyboard hold down the Alt key and type '0' followed by the number in column A. For example, Alt-0224 gives Ã*. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "nevermoore" wrote in message ... Hi & thanks in advance.... I'm trying to create a French 101 vocabulary-list generator, for my college course, but can't figure out how to input the "special characters". For the letter E, for instance, I need to apply at least 4 different accent marks to the vowel. I can do this easily enough in Word 2000, but with Excel 2000, have searched to no avail! I've tried various different hot-key options, no go. RATS! Nevermoore |
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Need accent marks on vowels, for French-English doc. Help?
I'm trying to create a French 101 vocabulary-list generator, for my
college course, but can't figure out how to input the "special characters". For the letter E, for instance, I need to apply at least 4 different accent marks to the vowel. I can do this easily enough in Word 2000, but with Excel 2000, have searched to no avail! I don’t know a built-in way as easy as Word's. Since you type French a lot, you might consider setting up an auto-correct item for each special character. For example, I just tried Tools AutoCorrect Options and added Replace ,e, With <Alt0233 using the numeric keypad for the four digits Now, when I type ,e, even in the middle of a word I get an accented "e". (I have Excel 2003.) |
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Need accent marks on vowels, for French-English doc. Help?
MyVeryOwnSelf wrote on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:36:50 -0500:
?? I'm trying to create a French 101 vocabulary-list ?? generator, for my college course, but can't figure out how ?? to input the "special characters". For the letter E, for ?? instance, I need to apply at least 4 different accent ?? marks to the vowel. I can do this easily enough in Word ?? 2000, but with Excel 2000, have searched to no avail! M I don’t know a built-in way as easy as Word's. M Since you type French a lot, you might consider setting up M an auto-correct item for each special character. That's not a bad way to go since Excel does not have the control method of Word (ê is CTRL+Shift-6+ e). I wonder why Microsoft has never provided that in Excel since it and Word have been supposed to be parts of an Office suite for a very long time? James Silverton Potomac, Maryland E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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