Alt-130 does not work any longer
Marian Heddesheimer
a guy just told me his problem: He enters special characters using
Alt-130 (or other Alt-combinations) to enter special italian charcters
in Word. He says that this worked a month ago but did not work any
longer. Some Alt-combinations work fine, some not. DOS-Box shows them
all fine but Word do not. It don't show anything with Alt-130
He is now accustomed to "his" numbers for the last 20 years and do not
want to relearn to Alt-0233 ;-)
He has Windows XP Professional and Office XP.
Can anybody give me a hint?
Regards
Marian
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Mike Williams
> Hi,
>
> a guy just told me his problem: He enters special characters using
> Alt-130 (or other Alt-combinations) to enter special italian charcters
> in Word. He says that this worked a month ago but did not work any
> longer. Some Alt-combinations work fine, some not. DOS-Box shows them
> all fine but Word do not. It don't show anything with Alt-130
>
> He is now accustomed to "his" numbers for the last 20 years and do not
> want to relearn to Alt-0233 ;-)
>
> He has Windows XP Professional and Office XP.
>
> Can anybody give me a hint?
Perhaps he doesn't have numlock key on.
There are much easier ways to enter these characters. If he configured his
machine to use an International Keyboard layout then, instead of typing
Alt+130, he could just type 'e to get é. This even works outside Word.
Marian Heddesheimer
<mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote:
>Perhaps he doesn't have numlock key on.
good hint, but other numbers work fine.
>There are much easier ways to enter these characters. If he configured his
>machine to use an International Keyboard layout then, instead of typing
>Alt+130, he could just type 'e to get é. This even works outside Word.
also good point. I will tell him but I think it is just a good old
behaviour that he don't want to give up :-)
Mike Williams
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:28:28 GMT, "Mike Williams"
> <mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps he doesn't have numlock key on.
>
> good hint, but other numbers work fine.
What fonts is he using? Which codes work and don't work? Does the set that
doesn't work alter?
>> There are much easier ways to enter these characters. If he
>> configured his machine to use an International Keyboard layout then,
>> instead of typing Alt+130, he could just type 'e to get é. This even
>> works outside Word.
>
> also good point. I will tell him but I think it is just a good old
> behaviour that he don't want to give up :-)
We'll have to give him a Alt-number skin patch :-)
Marian Heddesheimer
<mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote:
>What fonts is he using? Which codes work and don't work? Does the set that
>doesn't work alter?
not sure about that, but the character exists in the chosen font (I
think it's just Arial or Times-Roman). The character "é" does appear
if he uses Alt-0233 which is in the word table for special chars.
Suzanne S. Barnhill
get é. Word has built-in keyboard shortcuts for most common accented
characters.
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"Marian Heddesheimer" <mar...@rent-a-tutor.com> wrote in message
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Mike Williams
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:38:04 GMT, "Mike Williams"
> <mikegw...@owlandthepussycattbi.com> wrote:
>> What fonts is he using? Which codes work and don't work? Does the
>> set that doesn't work alter?
>
> not sure about that, but the character exists in the chosen font (I
> think it's just Arial or Times-Roman). The character "é" does appear
> if he uses Alt-0233 which is in the word table for special chars.
That's 1/3 questions answered.
Terry Farrell
Does he have his Num Pad Lock ON? It is Alt+0233 on the NumPad with it ON.
Not it is 0233 and not just 233.
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"Marian Heddesheimer" <mar...@rent-a-tutor.com> wrote in message
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: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:38:04 GMT, "Mike Williams"