Enabling alternate symbols and text...

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?


TIA,

DM

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars. This lets me (in all applications, not just Word) type many
common special characters (many of these are used in other languages,
not just Spanish) by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character
mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/

There are several ways to do this, and you will undoubtedly get
recommendation for others . I find AllChars to be the easiest way to
do this by far.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Thanks Ken!
Just got it, looking forward to using it.
bye

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars. This lets me (in all applications, not just Word) type many
common special characters (many of these are used in other languages,
not just Spanish) by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character
mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/

There are several ways to do this, and you will undoubtedly get
recommendation for others . I find AllChars to be the easiest way to
do this by far.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??

My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Well, I downloaded the 4.0 beta. Right off the bat when I tried to open the
..exe, it said that it was out of date and to contact the website. :P~ I
sent them an email, no reply as of yet. I will share it when it is received.
Thanks again.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
. ..
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Rhubarb wrote on Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:45:00 -0700:

R "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

?? On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
?? /Odm wrote:
??
?? How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish
?? emphasis using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?
??
?? I use and recommend a little freeware background program
?? called AllChars. This lets me (in all applications, not
?? just Word) type many common special characters (many of
?? these are used in other languages, not just Spanish) by
?? pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic
?? combination.
??
?? For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç
?? it's c and , For ü it's u and "
??
?? Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
??
?? There are several ways to do this, and you will
?? undoubtedly get recommendation for others . I find
?? AllChars to be the easiest way to do this by far.

But thesame process *is* available in Word 2002: CTRL+`e gives
è (e grave) in Word. There is a whole range of accents and
decorations including umlauts and Icelandic and Old English
letters. I wonder why the cheapskates did not incorporate it
into Excel?


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:37:55 -0400, "Narcoossee"
wrote:

Well, I downloaded the 4.0 beta. Right off the bat when I tried to open the
.exe, it said that it was out of date and to contact the website. :P~ I
sent them an email, no reply as of yet. I will share it when it is received.



I am almost always against using beta software except on a separate
test machine, and only if you are the kind of person who enjoys
fooling around with stuff like this and doesn't mind dealing with
problems. Stick to production versions. I use version 3.6.3


Thanks again.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:37:55 -0400, "Narcoossee"
wrote:

Well, I downloaded the 4.0 beta. Right off the bat when I tried to open the
.exe, it said that it was out of date and to contact the website. :P~ I
sent them an email, no reply as of yet. I will share it when it is received.

I am almost always against using beta software except on a separate
test machine, and only if you are the kind of person who enjoys
fooling around with stuff like this and doesn't mind dealing with
problems. Stick to production versions. I use version 3.6.3


I would like to use the functions of the OS or anything in MS Word 2000.

I have followed ALL of the instructions on the MS website, windows updates
Office 2000 instructions and more, to no avail. I have tried all documented
key combinations; I have assured that all forms of Latin text support are
loaded from the XP disk; I have tried multiple options and settings under
the US - International keyboard, and still there is no joy. No alternate
characters appear.

All three of his older PCs (Win-98 and upgrades to Ofc 2K from Ofc 97)
seem to have this function as a default, but they are slow and have no
hardware peripherals... and his ministry serves the latin population of the
community his church is in, so he needs the Latin alternate characters...
only about 10 of them actually.

Is this a font issue?

Where can I go to read more about this or garner troubleshooting tips?

How do I turn the damned thing on? ;-)


TIA,

DM

(I did download 3.6.3 and the patch, but we are trying to keep his brand
new PC free of unecessary OEM software if at all possible... it is to be
a dedicated office box for a small ministry, and we're going to be relying
on long term tech support -if necessary- on the MS products he has
purchased).



Thanks again.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:44:34 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:37:55 -0400, "Narcoossee"
wrote:

Well, I downloaded the 4.0 beta. Right off the bat when I tried to open the
.exe, it said that it was out of date and to contact the website. :P~ I
sent them an email, no reply as of yet. I will share it when it is received.

I am almost always against using beta software except on a separate
test machine, and only if you are the kind of person who enjoys
fooling around with stuff like this and doesn't mind dealing with
problems. Stick to production versions. I use version 3.6.3


I would like to use the functions of the OS or anything in MS Word 2000.


Your choice, of course, but I don't understand that point of view at
all. I want to do something the best way I can find to do it.

To me, saying "I would like to use the functions of the OS" is like
saying "I want to use Microsoft Paint (because it's included with
Windows) rather than Adobe Photoshop."


I have followed ALL of the instructions on the MS website, windows updates
Office 2000 instructions and more, to no avail. I have tried all documented
key combinations; I have assured that all forms of Latin text support are
loaded from the XP disk; I have tried multiple options and settings under
the US - International keyboard, and still there is no joy. No alternate
characters appear.

All three of his older PCs (Win-98 and upgrades to Ofc 2K from Ofc 97)
seem to have this function as a default, but they are slow and have no
hardware peripherals... and his ministry serves the latin population of the
community his church is in, so he needs the Latin alternate characters...
only about 10 of them actually.

Is this a font issue?

Where can I go to read more about this or garner troubleshooting tips?

How do I turn the damned thing on? ;-)


TIA,

DM

(I did download 3.6.3 and the patch, but we are trying to keep his brand
new PC free of unecessary OEM software if at all possible... it is to be
a dedicated office box for a small ministry, and we're going to be relying
on long term tech support -if necessary- on the MS products he has
purchased).



Thanks again.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.
would like to use the functions of the OS or anything in MS Word 2000.


I have followed ALL of the instructions on the MS website, windows updates
Office 2000 instructions and more, to no avail. I have tried all documented
key combinations; I have assured that all forms of Latin text support are
loaded from the XP disk; I have tried multiple options and settings under
the US - International keyboard, and still there is no joy. No alternate
characters appear.

All three of his older PCs (Win-98 and upgrades to Ofc 2K from Ofc 97)
seem to have this function as a default, but they are slow and have no
hardware peripherals... and his ministry serves the latin population of the
community his church is in, so he needs the Latin alternate characters...
only about 10 of them actually.

Is this a font issue?

Is there an OS glitch? Something I am missing in Word?

Where can I go to read more about this or garner troubleshooting tips?


TIA,

DM

(I did download 3.6.3 and the patch, but we are trying to keep his brand
new PC free of unecessary OEM software if at all possible... it is to be
a dedicated office box for a small ministry, and we're going to be relying
on long term tech support -if necessary- on the MS products he has
purchased).

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:44:34 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:37:55 -0400, "Narcoossee"
wrote:

Well, I downloaded the 4.0 beta. Right off the bat when I tried to open the
.exe, it said that it was out of date and to contact the website. :P~ I
sent them an email, no reply as of yet. I will share it when it is received.

I am almost always against using beta software except on a separate
test machine, and only if you are the kind of person who enjoys
fooling around with stuff like this and doesn't mind dealing with
problems. Stick to production versions. I use version 3.6.3


I would like to use the functions of the OS or anything in MS Word 2000.



Your choice, of course, but I don't understand that point of view at
all. I want to do something the best way I can find to do it.

To me, saying "I would like to use the functions of the OS" is like
saying "I want to use Microsoft Paint (because it's included with
Windows) rather than Adobe Photoshop."


Can you tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong, or not?




I have followed ALL of the instructions on the MS website, windows updates
Office 2000 instructions and more, to no avail. I have tried all documented
key combinations; I have assured that all forms of Latin text support are
loaded from the XP disk; I have tried multiple options and settings under
the US - International keyboard, and still there is no joy. No alternate
characters appear.

All three of his older PCs (Win-98 and upgrades to Ofc 2K from Ofc 97)
seem to have this function as a default, but they are slow and have no
hardware peripherals... and his ministry serves the latin population of the
community his church is in, so he needs the Latin alternate characters...
only about 10 of them actually.

Is this a font issue?

Where can I go to read more about this or garner troubleshooting tips?

How do I turn the damned thing on? ;-)


TIA,

DM

(I did download 3.6.3 and the patch, but we are trying to keep his brand
new PC free of unecessary OEM software if at all possible... it is to be
a dedicated office box for a small ministry, and we're going to be relying
on long term tech support -if necessary- on the MS products he has
purchased).



Thanks again.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.



"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?



I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??


No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:44:34 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:37:55 -0400, "Narcoossee"
wrote:

Well, I downloaded the 4.0 beta. Right off the bat when I tried to open the
.exe, it said that it was out of date and to contact the website. :P~ I
sent them an email, no reply as of yet. I will share it when it is received.

I am almost always against using beta software except on a separate
test machine, and only if you are the kind of person who enjoys
fooling around with stuff like this and doesn't mind dealing with
problems. Stick to production versions. I use version 3.6.3


I would like to use the functions of the OS or anything in MS Word 2000.


Your choice, of course, but I don't understand that point of view at
all. I want to do something the best way I can find to do it.

It's not my choice, it's the buyers choice... and I could use some help.

To me, saying "I would like to use the functions of the OS" is like
saying "I want to use Microsoft Paint (because it's included with
Windows) rather than Adobe Photoshop."

We're talking about simple typing here, not a career in graphics...
and a function that appears to work automatically on three other
old PCs in the same office with Win98SE.


Ken (Microsoft MVP Windows),

Sorry Ken... I don't mean to be rude, but you responded to my earlier
querry regarding a problem that apparently rests either with my ignorance
or with the current (clean install) configuration of an MS XP operating system.

First, instead of addressing either, you referred me to a piece of OEM software
and suggested that I install it rather than to deal with the MS XP product features.

Secondly, on my second querry regarding the XP OS's capabilities, you offerred
that there were indeed ways to address this issue within the MS product, but
failed to provide any instructions or directions to tutorials or troubleshooting
tools while skirting the original issue and implying that choosing to deal with
the Microsoft OS was simply a bad idea.

Thirdly, I tried to remedy the situation again on my own and returned with no
solution to ask you again why a fresh install of XP Home has no 'alt #' text
capabilities... to which you have now replied once again with the serious
implication that attempting to use the MS WinXP OS is somehow a mistake
because it is inferior, while still skirting the original question completely avoiding
couple of new ones which I directed at the unsolved problem.

I feel obligated to reiterate the original, unanswered question....

"How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish
emphasis using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?"

Please... can you tell me what the problem might be, or can you point me
to some troubleshooting instructions? And please, I am interesting in the
MS operating system functions that are available in WinXP Home for
this purpose if at all possible.


Thanks,

David Morgan (MAMS)
http://www.m-a-m-s DOT com
Morgan Audio Media Service
Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901
_______________________________________
http://www.januarysound.com



I have followed ALL of the instructions on the MS website, windows updates
Office 2000 instructions and more, to no avail. I have tried all documented
key combinations; I have assured that all forms of Latin text support are
loaded from the XP disk; I have tried multiple options and settings under
the US - International keyboard, and still there is no joy. No alternate
characters appear.

All three of his older PCs (Win-98 and upgrades to Ofc 2K from Ofc 97)
seem to have this function as a default, but they are slow and have no
hardware peripherals... and his ministry serves the latin population of the
community his church is in, so he needs the Latin alternate characters...
only about 10 of them actually.

Is this a font issue?

Where can I go to read more about this or garner troubleshooting tips?

How do I turn the damned thing on? ;-)


TIA,

DM

(I did download 3.6.3 and the patch, but we are trying to keep his brand
new PC free of unecessary OEM software if at all possible... it is to be
a dedicated office box for a small ministry, and we're going to be relying
on long term tech support -if necessary- on the MS products he has
purchased).




"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:43:54 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:47:01 -0700, Rhubarb
wrote:

Thanks Ken,
Just got it, looking forward to using it!


Great. After you've tried it for a while, let me (and others here)
know how you like it.


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:19:20 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
/Odm wrote:

How does one enable alternate text characters for Spanish emphasis
using XP Home or MS Word in Office 2000?

I use and recommend a little freeware background program called
AllChars.

Should I assume that this means there is no standard 'alt' text function
included with the MS products??

No, don't assume that. You can use Character Map. You can use
Alt+numeric key combinations,. You can use the US International
keyboard.

As I said earlier, there's more than one way to do this. I just think
AllChars is by far the easiest to use.


My dilemma is that I just assembled a new PC for this gentleman who was
using a P-I, 233 with Win-98, and he had the function previously with no
known 3rd party software installed... only MS Office 2K.

TIA,

DM


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