[Dale Magnant]

Pat,

Thanks for your response - after reading it I went back and seemingly did
the same thing over again - and it worked! Good Grief!

In my previous go-around I had checked Caps Lock as you suggested, but it
was off.

I hope all is well down there in Australia. It's springtime down there I
suppose - being in Vermont, USA, I'm jealous.

Thanks again,
Dale


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Dale


"Pat Garard" wrote:

G'Day Dale

My guess is that you have CAPS Lock on, or have Formatted the Font to
display as All Caps.

Be clear that the process is CTRL + : followed by letter - either upper or
lower case.

(Since : is SHIFT + ; this equates to CTRL + SHIFT + ; although I feel
that that muddies the water.)
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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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