The shortcut is Ctrl+: (which requires a Shift), then the letter. I suspect
that your problem is that you are not releasing the Shift key before
pressing the lowercase letter.
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"Dale Magnant" wrote in message
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Hello,
I am using Office 2003/SP2 with XP/SP2.
While using Word, I can use the Ctrl+Shift+:,letter method to generate
uppercase letters with an umlaut. However, I cannot use this method to
create lowercase letters with umlauts.
I've seen various instruction on what one should do to for lowercase
letters. Some say use Ctrl+:, letter. This persists in giving an
uppercase
umlauted letter. I've tried this and seemingly every other conceivable
combination, and everything gives uppercase only.
Even if I go to Insert/Symbol and pick a lower case umlauted character
from
the symbol chart and click insert, I still get an uppercase character.
Specifically I just want to be able to insert lowercase umlauted a,u, and
o
without having to resort to the Alt + numeric code method.
Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution?
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Thank You,
Dale