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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"onlinejester" wrote in message
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In Word XP I was able to type a lowercase a with a macron over it by
holding
down the ALT key and then typing 257 on the number pad. However, I have
discovered that when I try to do this in Word 2003, nothing appears. In
both
case, Times New Roman was my font.

So my question is the following: Since the ALT + # combination no longer
seems to work in Word 2003, how do I type English vowels with a macron
over
them -- needed in Latin and the transliteration of Sanskrit and Hindi.