Living in a spanish speaking country I constantly have to add special characters to my documents... under Windoze it's simply a matter of changing the keyboard layout to international or spanish... but I have no idea how to do it under Linux... anyone? Also, on Mickeysoft Word there's a way to assign shortcut keys to special characters, so instead of going all the way to Insert... Symbol you simply assign your favorite key combination (such as alt-a, ctrl-a, etc) to your favorite symbol. Is there a way to do this under StarOffice 4.0? -- //\/\ario //\/\elendez- TI2DLL ICQ #6160213 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://radioplaneta.base.org