Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-30 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Mandated by Dick Cheney. Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message- Ok.I'm getting usta keystroke combos for accented characters in French .but, they don't work in such things as dialog windows in browser pages, search boxes, and notepad .I have had2 resurrect WordPad to type the accente

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-30 Thread chad evans wyatt
All of which is why you might consider a Mac in future.  These are not problems on that platform. --- On Thu, 7/30/09, rleesimon wrote: From: rleesimon Subject: [CGUYS] foreign To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@listserv.aol.com Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:09 PM Ok.I'm getting usta keystroke c

[CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-30 Thread rleesimon
Ok.I'm getting usta keystroke combos for accented characters in French .but, they don't work in such things as dialog windows in browser pages, search boxes, and notepad .I have had2 resurrect WordPad to type the accented characters and then cut and paste into the boxes .I bought office 2007 ultima

[CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-16 Thread rleesimon
Yesterday, I fiddled and fiddled with the keyboard stuff and finally was able to type with accented characters (French.multi-keystrokes to order the character and then type the alpha) .today, rebooted, no joy.what's with that? Winxpprosp3, m$office1007ultimate with French language pack installed.?

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:59 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote: But why? Large gigabyte HD's obviate this former economy. And the convenience of using any keyboard in another native configuration surely is benefit. Foreign language support can consume 10-15% of disk space, so removal can be signifi

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread t.piwowar
On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:14 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote: Seems complex. On my Mac, I simply summon up another language's native keyboard, there are literally dozens of options. Show off. That's why you smug mac lovers tick us all off.

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread mike
board in another native configuration surely is > benefit. > > > > --- On Wed, 7/15/09, mike wrote: > > From: mike > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] foreign > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 2:13 PM > > Just an FYI, removing unneeded l

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread rleesimon
c. --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Ellen Rains Harris wrote: From: Ellen Rains Harris Subject: Re: [CGUYS] foreign To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM 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. U

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread chad evans wyatt
But why?  Large gigabyte HD's obviate this former economy.  And the convenience of using any keyboard in another native configuration surely is benefit. --- On Wed, 7/15/09, mike wrote: From: mike Subject: Re: [CGUYS] foreign To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Date: Wednesday, Ju

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread mike
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 wrote: > > From: Ellen Rains Harris >

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread chad evans wyatt
rsian, etc. --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Ellen Rains Harris wrote: From: Ellen Rains Harris Subject: Re: [CGUYS] foreign To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM 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

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-15 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
Éllèn - Original Message - From: "rleesimon" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] foreign OK ...I did that, now where can I find out what the difference is with the US version plain?? -Original Message- From: Ellen Rains Ha

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-14 Thread rleesimon
t; and you can have âll Thé symböls yöu wãnt. - Original Message - From: "rleesimon" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:06 PM Subject: [CGUYS] foreign I have occasion to use foreign characters frequently (French). Character map is one horrible hassle (& incomplet

[CGUYS] foreign ...update

2009-07-14 Thread rleesimon
Ok .so I googled and then resorted to the M$ knowledgebase which right away gave up a hotfix for the problem (language bar disappears) but found out it won't hotfix cuz it's for sp1 and was sposta been fixed in sp2 and I have sp3 .so, noodle around another hour or so and finally realized this ainna

Re: [CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-14 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
Set your default keyboard to "US-International" and you can have âll Thé symböls yöu wãnt. - Original Message - From: "rleesimon" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:06 PM Subject: [CGUYS] foreign I have occasion to use foreign characters frequently (French)

[CGUYS] foreign

2009-07-14 Thread rleesimon
I have occasion to use foreign characters frequently (French). Character map is one horrible hassle (& incomplete, doesn’t have the Euro symbol € at all)-winXPhomeSP3. My keyboard does not have a “compose key” and multi keystroke combinations in the office2007 instructions online do not seem t