Accessing foreign characters.

[Robert]

I'm new to Powerpoint & would like to use text-only slides for teaching an
obscure foreign language. I need 8 new characters in addition to the full
QWERTY set. All are available in the Symbol font. I have written 8 short
macros to pick out the characters, but must select them via a toolbar. This
causes fatique because they occur very often. Is there no way in PP for these
macros to be run by keypress (say Ctrl+Alt+ an Alphakey)?

Any other suggestions will be gratefully received.
Many thanks,

Robert.

 

[JanAdam]

I have been facing the same problem making slides in Polish, which uses a few
additional characters, all accessible in Latin-2. My solution was to type my
text in Word, where I assigned shortcut keys to all needed letters. Then, I
just copied it form Word and pasted to Power Point. It is still cumbersome
but, perhaps, it could serve as a temporary solution until someone advises
how to do it better. I will think about it too.

JanAdam

 

[Sonia]

Within PowerPoint you can set them up under Tools > AutoCorrect Options >
AutoCorrect as replacement pairs.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[JanAdam]

Sonia,

This is a good hint, thanks. However (there always has to be a glitch): I
can map say \L to Å and it displays Å correctly only if \L is immediately
followed by a space. If I type, say, \Lopataspace (Åopata is a shovel in
Polish) for whatever reasons it stays \Lopata.

JanAdam

 

[Sonia]

That is true. Therefore you must type /L backspace o p a t a. If you had a
Polish keyboard this wouldn't be required.