david klufas wrote:
I'm a new user of openoffice, am using Vista and a standard English keyboard,
and although most compositions are in English I want to send letters using
Spanish accents.
I don't understand how to use a keyboard shortcut of some sort to insert any of those Spanish characters.
Going to insert, special characters, etc, etc every time we wish to insert one of the characters in incredibly slow and cumbersome. I'm sure there is an easy answer but don't understand what U+00BF for an upside down question mark (for example) means.
Thanks in advance for any reply.
David Klufas
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First you need the *decimal* values of the characters you need to
insert. Your "00BF" is *hexadecimal* for the decimal value 191. Knowing
this, hold down the Alt key and then, using the *numeric pad* on your
keyboard press 0191 in sequence. When you release the Alt key an upside
down question mark will appear on the screen at the cursor position.
Note that you *must* use the numeric key pad and *not* the usual number
keys above the top row of letters. This will almost certainly mean
having to turn Numlock on. Note too the leading zero - simply entering
191 will not work. Please note that this is a Windows (Opertaing System)
thing; as such it has nothing to do with OpenOffice
The "U+" in your example stands for Unicode which is a modern extension
of Ascii designed to handle many additional characters including
European vowels, accented characters & punctuation marks as well as
other alphabets such as Cyrillic, Greek and so on.
For further reading, go to
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cumming/WordForLinguists/Unicode.htm
Having solved the Windows issue, we can now turn our attention to
OpenOffice. In OpenOffice you can record and save a "macro" for each
character. You can then assign a "keyboard shortcut" to each macro. For
example I recorded a macro to enter Alt/0191. I named the macro
"InvertedQuery" and then assigned it to Ctrl/q. Now when I hold down the
Ctrl key and hit the letter "q", an inverted question mark appears.
For more information, see Writer's Help about recording macros and
assigning them to shortcut keys. See also http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
and http://www.ooomacros.org/
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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