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How do I type a macron in Word 2003?
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. |
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Did you make sure your Num Lock was on?
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "onlinejester" wrote in message ... 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. |
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On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:22:02 -0700, onlinejester
wrote: 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. Alt+0257 works just fine in my copy of Word 2003. Make sure you have NumLock turned on when you try it. An alternative is to type 101 in the document (that's the hexadecimal equivalent of decimal 257) and press Alt+X. Yet another alternative is to select the character in the Insert Symbol dialog (it's in the Latin Extended-A subset); then press the Shortcut Key button and create a simple key combination for it. Do the same for the other vowels. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm for more info. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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