[Jay Freedman]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:15:01 -0800, Peyton Todd Peyton
wrote:

Hello. I need to enter special characters with dots over them. I know this
can be done with vowels and the letter 'y' by keying Shift-Control and then
the letter. But I need to do it over *consonants* - at least capital B and V
and maybe so others. If beggars can be choosers, I would very much prefer
three dots instead of just two.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Open the Insert Symbols dialog and change the Subset box to
Combining Diacritical Marks. At Unicode 0308 you'll find the
"combining diaeresis" character, two dots that can be placed over any
character.

I suggest that you make an AutoCorrect entry for each letter +
diaeresis combination you need. For example:

- Type the letter B in a document.
- Go to Insert Symbol and insert the diaeresis.
- Select the B and diaeresis.
- Go to Tools AutoCorrect Options.
- In the Replace box, enter something unique that will serve as a
"trigger" to enter the AutoCorrect item. I suggest \b: (that is,
backslash, b, and colon) as a trigger that's unlikely to be entered by
mistake.
- Click the Add button.


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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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