A question came up in one of the recent postings about accented charcters and how to make them. It's really quite easy for anyone using Windows. There are a number a ways to approach the issue of putting accented characters into text, such as+ k, l, o, K, b. The way I prefer is to use the keyboard rather that flipping back and forth between a small Windows utility called, CHARACTER MAP. This utility, however, is the key to making up a little "cheater chart" to use in conjunction with the main keyboard and the number pad just to the right of it. Go to the CHARACTER MAP utility. Note that each Truetype Font set has 255 characters in fonts that are used typically for text. Locate one of the special characters that you use for CZECH. Click once on it and note the "ALT" code that appears in a box at the bottom right next to the word "keystroke." For example an k, it should say "Alt+0235". Jott that number down and click on all the others that you might want to use recording there numbers as well. Before proceeding to my perferred method, I should point out that at this point you could double click on the character or "SELECT" and COPY it, which will place it in memory, from that point on you can PASTE it in any Windows document. I find this cumbersome. Instead, armed with the "ALT" codes, you can do the following (assumming that you have NUM LOCK ON. If it is off, it will not work. So put it on NOW.): With the cursor at the insertion point of where you want to place the special character, hold down the ALT key on your keyboard, then while holding it down, press the number keys on the keypad tapping out four digit code.... 0 2 3 5, for the k, or any other code for the other 128 special characters you always wanted to have but couldn't find. Gary Gary