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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
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! |
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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
On Jan 27, 9:55*pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
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. Or, while you're in Insert Symbol locating the Combining Diacritic for dieresis, create a keyboard shortcut for that character alone (button at middle bottom of Insert Symbol) and type it after a letter you want the dots on top of. If you want "three dots," how do you want them arranged? |
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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
On Jan 27, 9:55*pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
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. Or, while you're in Insert Symbol locating the Combining Diacritic for dieresis, create a keyboard shortcut for that character alone (button at middle bottom of Insert Symbol) and type it after a letter you want the dots on top of. If you want "three dots," how do you want them arranged? |
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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:15:01 PM UTC-6, Peyton Todd 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! The proper way is to go to the "Insert" ribbon, select the "equation" button which brings up the Equation Tools menu, and then select from the "Accent" menu on the right. |
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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 6:15:01 PM UTC-8, Peyton Todd 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? ya go **** your self Thanks! |
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How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 1:27:30 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:15:01 PM UTC-7, Peyton Todd 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! what about if my name is Zoe The character ë is typed (using the US keyboard) in Word just like all the other letters with an umlaut/dieresis: Ctrl-Shift-:, e . |
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Answer: How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?
Hi there! Yes, you can definitely enter special characters with dots over consonants in Microsoft Word. Here's how:
Alternatively, you can also use keyboard shortcuts to insert special characters with dots over consonants: 1. Hold down the Alt key on your keyboard. 2. While holding down the Alt key, type the Unicode value for the character you want to insert using the numeric keypad on the right side of your keyboard. For example, to insert the capital letter "B" with three dots over it, type "0190" (without the quotes). 3. Release the Alt key and the character should appear in your document.
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