Printing Spanish diacritical marks.

[Dean]

In moving from Word 97 to Word 2002 I notice that upper case capital letters
in Spanish print without the accent, although the accents show in the
on-screen document. How do I get the accents to print?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This may be a printer driver issue. If the printer is using resident fonts,
the fonts may not contain the accented uppercase characters (though this
seems unlikely). If that were the case, you could get around it by printing
TrueType as graphics (most printer drivers have a setting that allows you to
do this).

There is a setting on the Edit tab of Tools | Options regarding accented
uppercase in French, but regardless of what it signifies, it would be
irrelevant to Spanish. Another possibility would be line spacing; there are
a number of Compatibility Options that address whether space is added for
underlines, superscripts, etc., and those settings might affect whether
accents would have room to print on uppercase letters.

 

[Dean]

I've never heard of TrueType but will look it up. What I did - for now - was
go to an old Word 97 doc, selected words that have the (printable) accented
uppercase characters, and pasted them onto the document I was working on.
Then I did a search and replace for the words I needed. Laborious as the
dickens, but it worked. Thanks for your help.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Are you using the same font in both documents? TrueType, BTW, is the type of
font you are most likely using in each case. TrueType and PostScript Type 1
are among the types of fonts Word can use (it can also use printer-resident
fonts).

 

[Dean]

The only font I ever use is Times New Roman. I still have Word 97 on my
computer and could go back to using it, but I'd hate to - the 2002 is
amazing. I was curious about tracking changes. Great tool!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This certainly seems odd, since I would assume that Word 97 and Word 2002
are using the same printer and driver. I would think it would have to be
some Compatibility Options setting that is making the difference, but if you
can copy/paste characters in and they print correctly, then that doesn't
make any sense, either.

The only font I ever use is Times New Roman. I still have Word 97 on my
computer and could go back to using it, but I'd hate to - the 2002 is
amazing. I was curious about tracking changes. Great tool!