Pia
Fri May 09 00:39:59 CDT 2008
Chouette, pay attention, that you only use symbols from "normal text". Any
other font may be formatted text in the view of Powerpoint and the letter
you wanted may be replaced by something different. Only Word can deal with
formatted text in Autocorrect.
Pia
Chouette wrote:
> Thank you John, I could now do it with the ctrl V command.
>
> "John Wilson" wrote:
>
>> PS I can paste accented letters into the autocorrect box with ctrl V.
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>> "Chouette" wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you John, for your quick answer. Yes, I was also thinking
>>> about the Autocorrect feature, but am unable (in Office 2007) to
>>> paste the accented characters into the 'replace with' box, nor are
>>> they there if I select them in my slide. How do I get them to show
>>> up there (I use a laptop and hence don't have the numeric keypad)?
>>> Any hints? Thanks so much for helping me with this!
>>>
>>> "John Wilson" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sadly the ctrl etc key shortcuts don't work in ppt. You can hold
>>>> down ALT and type the four fig ascii code on the numeric keypad
>>>> but it's hardly faster. Maybe you could "progamme" some
>>>> combinations into autocorrect? eg a* = á --
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>>>> "Chouette" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I teach foreign languages and always struggle with the fact that
>>>>> I cannot as easily type foreign accents in Powerpoints as I can
>>>>> in Word where this is not difficult at all. In Powerpoint I have
>>>>> to use the "Insert Symbol" function for every accent which takes
>>>>> so much time. Does anyone have some advice on how I can do this
>>>>> more easily?
>>>>> Thank you!