At 04:12 27/09/2014 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote:
Most of the times I type in English so I don't need to worry about
accented characters. Sometimes I need to write up or edit text in
Spanish or German, so I
need to be able to replace accented characters at once. After
marking them up with ticks next/right to the character you can
search all of them with the regex:
(a'|e'|i'|o'|u'|u''|n~|?'|!'|A'|E'|I'|O'|U'|U''|N~)
but then, how do you replace them all at once (each correspondingly) ...
Not easily, I suspect!
Try this:
o Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Replace.
o Type your code for the character in the Replace field.
o Enter your accented character in the With field.
o Probably tick "Text only".
o Click New.
o Repeat for each accented character.
You may find it simpler to enter or find the accented character in a
document and select it before opening the AutoCorrect dialogue: then
the With field will already be populated. Note that the replacement
table settings are language-dependent.
Now tick Format | AutoCorrect > | While Typing and you can have your
codes translated as you type. For your existing document, you should
be able to achieve the effect using Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply
(or Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply and Edit Changes).
An alternative approach (I see someone has already mentioned this) is
to use one or more alternative keyboard settings, allowing you to
type the characters directly. A little time investigating this would
provide valuable returns.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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