Hi Bob and Gale: Thanks for your extensive tutorial on how to do umlauts. I may be an expert (sort of)on history, etc. but I am still fairly computer illiterate. I have three different capabilities to make umlauts - I find the easiest and quickest is the Alt + numeric keypad. They all come out fine in ordinary manuscripts or even Emails. However, on this end I cannot receive them. They all come out Greek - or should I say, odd-looking characters that resemble Cyrillic (Russian). Help! How can I overcome this???
Thanks for any suggestions you can give me. Jane
Jane Swan
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Hi Jane,
I've tried some of the methods to get the unlauts and I have yet to succeed. You mentioned to hit alt + numeric keypad. That really does not tell me anything.
A little more help, please.
Betty in St. Louis
The most common reason for the problem concerning special characters (Umlaut) is that you are using the numbered keys not the "calculator" numeric keyboard at the right side of your keyboard. Use the pad to the right of the keyboard. Hold down the Alt key and type in the number which is supposed to give you the character you want. You can get those numbers from someone else on the List or the character set in "Windows". As I said, I don't use them, I use a floating onscreen keyboard with whichever language I select. Two simple keys and I have what I want.
Now if you are using a notebook, the key pad is different. You have to hold down the Alt, the key with the green Fn and the key with the appropriate green number on it.