"G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:24
-0800, austin DuBrulle wrote:
> I use Windows OpenOffice Writer 2.1 for letters to foreign contries. It
> seems that my only way to create accented characters is to copy them from
> the Character Map. This is a bit awkward.
>
> How about using the same device as in MS Word, that is, creating an accent
> with typing Ctrl+{accent}
> before typing the character?
>
> Otherwise, OO is a nice piece of software. In particular, including a PDF
> converter in the Writer is a good idea.
>
Have you tried any of the methods described in the HOW TO section at the
doc project? I use the method outlined for UNIX quite successfully and
Windows user say method for this OS works well.
See
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/Howto_special_char.pdf
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G. Roderick Singleton
OpenOffice.org
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