Under W2000 I used to press just (say) " (double quote) followed by the
character 'a', to get an a with the trema. Now I need to use the Cntl key
(which by the way does not work in this screen). Who knows how to get the
previous way of working back,which also worked fine in Outlook, Excel and
other programs?

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"Gert Roos" Gert wrote in message
...
Under W2000 I used to press just (say) " (double quote) followed by the
character 'a', to get an a with the trema. Now I need to use the Cntl key
(which by the way does not work in this screen). Who knows how to get the
previous way of working back,which also worked fine in Outlook, Excel and
other programs?