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More info?)
google for "proofing tools".
the first hit should be of interest.
as far as typing them you might want to check out the tiny freeware addition
AllChars at http://allchars.zwolnet.com.
works no matter what keyboard layout and/or language settings you have.
simply brilliant.
george
"Dengueoxum" <Dengueoxum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Much easier:
>
> Set your keyboard to United States International
> You'll have access to all the accented characters in just two keystrokes.
> Just press " and the letter you want the umlaut on: ä ë Ö Ä
>
> Freundlige Grüßen
> Dengue
>
> "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
>
>> skye wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I am using microsft office 2000 on winxp.
>> >
>> > I am in dire need of German fonts/dictionary/thesaurus files.
>> >
>> > Any clues on where to obtain German language help? I would be happy
>> > just to have fonts available to create the German Umlaute for ae, ue,
>> > oe ...
>> > Thanks! Skye
>>
>> You can use the Character Map to copy/Paste different language characters
>> into a document using the default fonts in MSOffice. Each of these
>> special
>> characters have a shortcut key associated with them.
>>
>> For instance, you can palce the following characters into a document
>> using
>> the character map.
>> ö ë ü ä
>>
>> Start/All Programs/Accessories/Character map.
>>
>> Also, there are tons of special language fonts available if you use
>> Google
>> to search the internet.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ronnie Vernon
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
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