I thought it might help typing some of the German words if you had the code on how to type a letter with an umlaut. While holding down the Alt key, type the indicated numbers from the numerical keypad. Ä 0196 Ö 0214 Ü 0220 Ë 0203 ä 0228 ö 0246 ü 0252 ë 0235 Maybe some of you will find this useful. Larry