How Enter Special Character With Dots Over It?

[Todd@discussions.microsoft.com Peyton Todd]

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!

[Jay Freedman]

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.

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[Peter T. Daniels]

On Jan 27, 9:55 pm, Jay Freedman <jay.freed...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:15:01 -0800, Peyton Todd <Peyton
>

> T...@discussions.microsoft.com> 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?

[lev...@gmail.com]

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.

[jackiecha...@gmail.com]

> Any ideas? ya go fuck your self
>
> Thanks!

[z.be...@share.epsb.ca]

what about if my name is Zoe

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[Peter T. Daniels]

On Friday, December 15, 2017 at 1:27:30 PM UTC-5, z.be...@share.epsb.ca wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:15:01 PM UTC-7, To...@discussions.microsoft.com 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 .