Hi Leonardus,
If you're using an outside program you may want to check with the folks that there if using Paste Special in Word doesn't help.
You didn't mention the version of Word you're using but you may want to check but there are several macro solutions available on the
web such as the one from the macro link on
http://pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/pinyin_setup.htm
if working with the Windows Chinese IME within Word set for 'Input with Tone' won't work for your situation.
There's also visual keyboard methods such as the one at
http://pinyin.info/news/2006/typing-...-2000xp-system
You may also want to check with the folks in the Word International features group as well.
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"Leonardus" wrote in message ...
I have found a program that allows me to input a pinyin tone number after the
vowel and that results in the corresponding tone mark to be put on top of the
preceding vowel. However when I copy and paste the result into Word (or
Excel) tone marks 1 and 3 (straight line and little v) disappear.
Is there a way that these can be retained?
Ideally, of course, Word should allow these tone marks to be input directly
but I suppose, that is a bridge too far? I daresay I could copy and paste the
special character sets but that would be awfully tedious.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
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