How do I get foreign character sets?

[Vance Roos]

I would like to have some special Spanish characters included in my
XP Pro character map.

(Things like the upside down ? and upside down !).

How can I do this?

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

I would like to have some special Spanish characters included in my
XP Pro character map.

(Things like the upside down ? and upside down !).

How can I do this?

They are already there.

inverted question mark = Alt+0191
inverted exclamation mark = Alt+0161




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[Martin]

Alternatively, you can make the keyboard act like a spanish one and have all
of the symbols available to you as you type. To do this do START/Control
Panel. Click on 'Keyboard' and select the 'Input locales' tab. Click on the
'Add' button and then add Spanish (mod sort). This will place an icon in
your system tray in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Using this,
you can select spanish keyboard mode and toggle it back to English via the
same icon.

Hope this helps

Martin

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm for several
approaches to inserting international characters and other symbols.

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[Ken Blake]

In

Alternatively, you can make the keyboard act like a spanish one and
have all of the symbols available to you as you type. To do this do
START/Control Panel. Click on 'Keyboard' and select the 'Input
locales' tab. Click on the 'Add' button and then add Spanish (mod
sort). This will place an icon in your system tray in the bottom
right hand corner of your screen. Using this, you can select spanish
keyboard mode and toggle it back to English via the same icon.

Here's still another choice, if you don't want the full Spanish
keyboard all the time: download and install Allchars from
allchars.zwolnet.com. This lets you easily insert many special
characters (Spanish and other) by pressing the Ctrl key followed
by a two character mnemonic. For example, I get ¿ by pressing
Ctrl-?-?.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word already has built-in shortcuts for those characters. For example, ¿ is
Alt+Ctrl+?. The shortcuts are displayed in the Symbol dialog.

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Words into Type
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[Vance Roos]

I can't find those sorts of characters in "Symbol". This is where I
go:

Start -> All Programs -> System Tools -> Character Map -> and select
"Symbol"

Why doesn't this character map show Spanish characters?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You're looking in the wrong place. You should be looking at Word's Insert |
Symbol dialog, not Windows Character Map. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[Ken Blake]

In

Word already has built-in shortcuts for those characters. For
example, ¿ is Alt+Ctrl+?. The shortcuts are displayed in the Symbol
dialog.

Yes, although I now notice that he crossposted to a Word group
(I'm answering from microsoft.public.windowsxp.general), he
didn't say he was looking to do this in Word specifically.