If I access the special character table part of it is out of sight below the screen and there does not seem to be any way of moving it, also if I put it down on the task bar and then bring it back up it gets very large and its only possible to see part of one letter, if this is repeated it gets even larger. The only way out seems to be to restart the program. Can someone tell me how to rectify this please. Juda 3431 >From David and June in Gosport

Do you remember asking a similar question in February 2008? It is in then list archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/freebmd-admins/2008-02/1202479085 together with the replies then received, which seemed to solve the problem for you at the time. The simple answer is that after pressing f4 key you should NOT click on the 'hollow-square' 'maximise icon, but change the shape and size of the window showing special characters by dragging the corners of the window. If you do get a giant window of special characters that you can't cope with, save your WinBMD file if you can, close WinBMD and then start it again, being more careful in future. If you can get at the WinBMD File menu, do this by 'Save Batch and Exit' from the File menu. For those more technically minded, Ian Brooke posted a 'fix' for this at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/freebmd-admins/2008-02/1202570723 Note that editing WinBMD.ini should only be done while WinBMD is closed. [If you can't find WinBMD.ini in the WinBMD folder it may simply be called WinBMD and have an icon with a cog-wheel over it and 'Configuration Settings'. You can confirm it is the right file by right-clicking and choosing 'Properties' or, in some versions of Windows, by changing the View of the folder contents.] This is advice I have given to my syndicate in the past, which may be appropriate for the general WinBMD user: =Special Characters= Many of you will have come across the use of f4 key to open a table of special characters, letters with various sorts of accents, after locating the cursor where you want the special letter. To see the whole range of such characters, 'drag down' the bottom right corner until what you want is present, select the one you want, and double-click. Occasionally, for example if you try to minimise the table of special characters and re-open it, the table grows enormous and takes up much of the screen. To solve this problem use 'Save batch and exit' in the WinBMD 'File' menu. When you re-start WinBMD the character table will have gone, and you can try again. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Jones" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:53 AM Subject: special characters > If I access the special character table part of it is out of sight below > the screen and there does not seem to be any way of moving it, also if I > put it down on the task bar and then bring it back up it gets very large > and its only possible to see part of one letter, if this is repeated it > gets even larger. The only way out seems to be to restart the program. Can > someone tell me how to rectify this please. > Juda 3431 >>From David and June in Gosport > FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins > FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/