[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

My method and Terry's were the same!

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"pubscout" wrote in message
...
Actually, Susan, your method and Terry's worked equally well. But I went
to
Shortcut Keys and configured two shortcuts using ALT and the letters I
needed
to emulate the Mac system. Much easier, especially for one whose large
fingers do not fly lightly over the keys....

But thank you all for your suggestions and help. I had no idea my question
would generate such a wide response!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, you press Ctrl+Shift+` (= Ctrl+~), release, and then press n or N
depending in whether you want lowercase or capital. For alternative
methods
of inserting these characters, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

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"pubscout" wrote in message
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So pressing Ctrl+SHIFT+~, then releasing Ctrl and SHIFT while still
holding
~down and pressing "n" gives me what I want?

Wow. That's a pretty involved, unflowing process to get a single
accent
mark, isn't it? On Macs, you press OPTION and the letter and you get
your
results. Too bad that Windows Logo button doesn't have that
functionality.
(We regular Mac users are probably going to sound a bit curmudgeonly
from
time to time. Forgive us.)

Thanks for your help, Herb. It is much appreciated.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

On most keyboards, you can't. So, in reality, you press Ctrl+Shift+`
(which
effectively is Ctrl+~). Suzanne's point was that you press
Ctrl+Shift+`,
remove your fingers, and then press the n key. I.e., when you press
the
n
key, you should not still be pressing Ctrl+Shift+`.

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"pubscout" wrote in message
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How can I press Ctrl+~ without pressing the SHIFT key?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You're probably not doing it right. Press Ctrl+~ or Ctrl+' and
then
release.
These are the "setup keys." Then type the letter you want the
accent
over, n
or N, e or E. It's a two-step process, and one of the mistakes
many
users
make is not releasing the Shift key (needed to type Ctrl+~, which
is
Ctrl+Shift+`) before typing the following letter, so they always
get
capitals instead of the desired lowercase.

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"pubscout" wrote in message
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Thanks for the tip, Jay. But I'm still having a bit of trouble.
For
example
when I opened the symbol button and found what the keyboard
shortcut
was,
it
would never work. It only opened up some other unrelated dialog
box.
CTRL+~,SHIFT,N for example never gave ma an n with a tilde over
the
top
of
it. CTRL+', E never gave me the accented e I sought. I
developed a
workaround
by changing the shortcut key, but the whole process seems a lot
more
tedious
than it ought to be.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:19:00 -0700, pubscout
wrote:

How do I add an accented letter to a word in Word? For
example,
if I
want to
accent the "e" in resume (for a job) or put a tilde over the
"n"
in
senor
(Spanish).

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm

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