using keyboard combinations to type Spanish characters in MS Word 2002

[Brian Wendling]

My wife is a Spanish teacher, and she was accustomed to using keyboard
combinations to make spanish characters when we had Word 97...
.....ie; Alt + 164 would make ñ (ironically, these combinations will still
work in the emails she sends, just not in Word documents)
Any ideas on how to have this same function doing Word 2002 documents?
(or which newsgroup would be better to search for that info?)
Much Thanks!

 

[AKM]

My wife is a Spanish teacher, and she was accustomed to using keyboard
combinations to make spanish characters when we had Word 97...
....ie; Alt + 164 would make ñ (ironically, these combinations will still
work in the emails she sends, just not in Word documents)
Any ideas on how to have this same function doing Word 2002 documents?
(or which newsgroup would be better to search for that info?)
Much Thanks!

ctrl-~, then n

similarly, you can get grave and acute accents, and diareses and
umläute, by preceding the vowel with ctrl-`, ctrl-', ctrl-:

There are further combinations for the scharfes s, ligatures and so on.

Does anyone know how to get Word to print the ligatures for ff, ct, st,
ft, fl (or at least the common ligatures ff and fl) automatically? I
always have to search-and-replace before printing, and then revert to
the old document for editing.

 

[Brian Wendling]

ctrl-~, then n

similarly, you can get grave and acute accents, and diareses and
umläute, by preceding the vowel with ctrl-`, ctrl-', ctrl-:

There are further combinations for the scharfes s, ligatures and so on.

Does anyone know how to get Word to print the ligatures for ff, ct, st,
ft, fl (or at least the common ligatures ff and fl) automatically? I
always have to search-and-replace before printing, and then revert to
the old document for editing.

I tried ctr plus ~ plus n, but it only opened up a new word document....am I
doing something wrong?
I feel silly for asking, but....
Thanks...

 

[James Silverton]

will

I tried ctr plus ~ plus n, but it only opened up a new word document....am I
doing something wrong?
I feel silly for asking, but....
Thanks...

Are you sure you are pressing the control keys together? CNTL+Shft+~
at the same time, then release and press n or N. It sounds like you
are getting CNTL+n.

Jim.

 

[Brian Wendling]

Are you sure you are pressing the control keys together? CNTL+Shft+~
at the same time, then release and press n or N. It sounds like you
are getting CNTL+n.

Jim.

Yes, yes, yes....thanks for the correct nuance....a spanish teacher also
thanks you....
Brian

 

[Martha]

My wife is a Spanish teacher, and she was accustomed to using keyboard
combinations to make spanish characters when we had Word 97...
....ie; Alt + 164 would make ñ [...]
Any ideas on how to have this same function doing Word 2002 documents?

I know of no reason why the Alt+Num shortcuts wouldn't work in any
version of Word. As usual, make sure you use the numeric keypad, make
sure numlock is on, all that jazz.

The only time the shortcuts don't work for me (Office 2000) is if I'm
using a very limited font, one that doesn't include the extended-ASCII
characters such as ñ, é, and such. Such fonts are pretty hard to find,
though, and certainly the basic fonts that would be used by default
(Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, etc.) have all of these characters
and more. (Also, if a font doesn't have a character, most of the time
you'll get a rectangle or box, not a blank space.)

The Word-specific shortcuts (ctrl+<some character that resembles the
accent mark>,<the letter you want to add it to>) are good because
they're at least slightly intuitive. The disadvantage is that you have
to learn a new set of shortcuts, and then you don't get to use them
anywhere other than Word.

 

[Brian Wendling]

My wife is a Spanish teacher, and she was accustomed to using keyboard
combinations to make spanish characters when we had Word 97...
....ie; Alt + 164 would make ñ [...]
Any ideas on how to have this same function doing Word 2002 documents?

I know of no reason why the Alt+Num shortcuts wouldn't work in any
version of Word. As usual, make sure you use the numeric keypad, make
sure numlock is on, all that jazz.

The only time the shortcuts don't work for me (Office 2000) is if I'm
using a very limited font, one that doesn't include the extended-ASCII
characters such as ñ, é, and such. Such fonts are pretty hard to find,
though, and certainly the basic fonts that would be used by default
(Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, etc.) have all of these characters
and more. (Also, if a font doesn't have a character, most of the time
you'll get a rectangle or box, not a blank space.)

The Word-specific shortcuts (ctrl+<some character that resembles the
accent mark>,<the letter you want to add it to>) are good because
they're at least slightly intuitive. The disadvantage is that you have
to learn a new set of shortcuts, and then you don't get to use them
anywhere other than Word.

Using Numlock was the key....thanks....truly....
Brian
who knows about juggling, but not MS Word....