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On Apr 26, 2010, at 09:43 , Paul Foissac wrote: > Hello Users Open > I am 75 years old, I am not computer scientist. > during my retirement I am learning English and Spanish. Well, you've done a good job with English! No problems understanding you at all. > my problem I have a french keyboard and there are no spanish letters. > moreover, I have difficulties to work in Spanish. > How, can I get the spanish letters? Paul, this is not really a problem with Open Office but with the fact that you have a French keyboard on your computer and not a Spanish one. > Could you help me? I would like to get on my keyboard spanish letters. > I have XP Familial, I use Open 3,01, I am very satisfied with this tool. There are two ways, one for use if you know the layout of the Spanish keyboard, the other if you don't. If you know the layout of the Spanish keyboard, you can add that to your alternatives in Regional Settings (I think it's called) under the Control Panel. I don't know what it will be called in French. With this alternative you can add a little icon to the System Tray (on the bottom right of your screen, where the clock usually is) so that you can change between the French and Spanish keyboards - and the English one as well, if you like - at the click of a mouse button. I use this method to change between the normal Swedish keyboard attached to my computer and the Icelandic one which I sometimes need. If you don't know the layout of the Spanish keyboard, you can use the Character Map which I think you find under Accessories and probably System Tools. In this you can click on the Spanish character you need and copy and paste it to your document. This is somewhat cumbersome, and what I did once when I needed six or seven characters which I couldn't type was to copy them from the Character Map to a small Open Office document, and open that when I needed these characters. I assume there are not more than, say, ten special characters you need in Spanish, and these can fit into a really tiny document which you can have open beside the Spanish document you are working on and quickly copy and paste from your character document to the Spanish document. Maybe someone has a third alternative? Can one load an on-screen keyboard in Windows XP? If so Paul can click on the letters he needs that way. > Thanks for you help. You're welcome. > Excuse me, my English is not very good, but I think that I manage. See above. There's nothing wrong with your English, Paul. //James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
