It's a real mess, although I find it way easier than going into char map to get the accented characters. I sure don't need a foreign keyboard in the mix. Overall, it is a lousy alternative requiring multiple keystrokes to get the job done. Some are "hassle" keystrokes (i.e. accent grave <`> is ctrl-key under tilde all the way up left of #1 and then the letter) ...I need a hand stretcher!! Wouldn't it be great if someone wrote a macro to put up a "foreign character toolbar" in M$Office2007 programs so you can just click on what you want? While fiddling around I saw a pulldown for foreign character map but it must have been in m$word2007 of course, in outlook2007 its not there doh!!
-----Original Message----- From: chad evans wyatt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:15 PM Subject: Re: foreign Seems complex. On my Mac, I simply summon up another language's native keyboard, there are literally dozens of options. I use Czech, Slovak, Polish, French, Hungarian, Lithuanian regularly, no fuss. Were it required, I could go several kinds of Chinese, Afghan, Armenian, Norwegian, Persian, etc. --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Ellen Rains Harris <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ellen Rains Harris <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] foreign To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 11:13 AM Type any of the symbols (carat, tilde, etc,) then type the letter you want it to apply to. Umlauts are from the shift-quote (double quotes). Just play with it, you'll figure it out. Oh, and now you have to put a space after quote marks to make them appear. élse they become áccents. Éllèn ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
