Cannot Insert Symbols Using Shortcut Key

[Barkster]

I just setup 20 of our laptops with office 2003 on them with Vista Business.
This was replacing their workstations. On the workstations which both have
2003 and Vista shortcut keys worked fine in Word but for some reason they do
not work on these notebooks. Trying Alt+0233 does not work can only insert
them using Insert | Symbol.

When I go to wordpad or notepad the shortcuts work. Why doesn't this work on
any of the new notebooks, did I not choose something at setup?

 

[Pesach Shelnitz]

Hi,

On your workstations, you should have needed to press Num Lock to get
Alt+0233 to generate the character é. On the new laptops, you need to do the
equivalent of pressing Num Lock.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

If you don't want to bother with the keypad/NumLock setting, you can
also get symbols by typing the Unicode code (not the ASCII code) on
the regular keyboard _followed by_ Alt+X.

If there are some symbols you use all the time, you can assign a
keyboard shortcut to the symbol in the Insert Symbol panel (button in
the bottom row). NB if a particular font is chosen in the Insert
Symbol panel when you're making the assignment, Word will always enter
the symbol in that particular font, so be sure the Font window at the
upper left is set to "(normal text)" (the top choice).