[Bernie Marquardt]

Hi there. I am always amazed at the ways of making accents in text. I type in several languages and over the years I got used to using for instance alt+130 (on the numeric keyboard) to render an é, or alt+164 to render a ñ. Now if I invoke the function in Microsoft Word to insert a symbol, it has other numbers to do the same thing, like alt+0233 for the é and alt+0241 for the ñ. (Notice the added 0). Both systems work. And I a believe in Word 2007, there are even additional methods to do this. Why isn't there a standard way? Will the old method (the one I am used to) be phased out?