[Finale] foreign characters within expression text

[DeliusFan]

To begin, I apologize if my AOL mail has been sending posts in html code; I promise that I was just using the default settings that came with version 7.0.  I have increased the font point size to 12 to see if that fixes the problem.  If it doesn't, please remain patient with me!

Here is the problem-du-jour...I'm trying to duplicate some French expression marks such as the following :"sans hate"...my problem, is that if I don't want general laughter coming from the orchestra, I need a circumflex over the 'a' in "hate" so that it means haste.  Short of drawing them in, does anyone have a solution in how to get the foreign characters while typing in the create expression dialogue box?  How about within the text tool, since there is no "symbol" box to click as in Word?  Is the answer there to cut and paste from Word?

Thanks for everyone's help...this list supplementing the online documentation really saves the day!

Michael Wittenburg

PS I actually just performed the cut-and-paste from Word experiment and it does indeed work, even in the create expression box...the question is now, is there a slightly easier method than keeping my word processor on standby for French duty?