This is terrific info. How does this look to those of you with Juno, etc? Janet >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >From: WEKunkl <[email protected]> >Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 23:20:13 EST >To: [email protected] >Subject: Umlots ä ë ï ö ü in WIN3x/WIN95 >Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) > >Janet, > >I thought you might like to publish this information in your 'Spindle'. > >I tried to find out how to use umlots in programs on my own, using Windows >Help, and found the system was not user friendly. I received documents from >Fred H. Held that contained many umloted characters, so I ask him if there was >an easier way than that described in Windows Help. As it turned out, Fred sat >on the board that standardized the IBM keyboard and was happy to share his >knowledge. > >In the Windows Accessors group or folder you will find a program "Character >Map". Start the program. You will see all of the characters on your keyboard >plus many foreign characters and some symbols. Right click and hold on any >character and it will be magnified. As you highlight characters, you will >notice that the Keystroke: in the lower right hand corner change. The >Keystroke: is what you type to get the character. If it says Alt + 0196, you >hold down the Alt key and type the numbers 0196, and then release the Alt key. >This would have created Ä in your text. The character map can change when you >change fonts but I have found that most fonts that come with Windows have the >same character map. So that I do not have to have the Character Map program >running in the background, I created the following cheat sheet to use. > >Ä Alt + 0196 ä Alt + 0228 > >Ë Alt + 0203 ë Alt + 0235 > >Ï Alt + 0207 ï Alt + 0239 > >Ö Alt + 0214 ö Alt + 0246 > >Ü Alt + 0220 ü Alt + 0252 > >I use 'Family Tree Maker' and the umlots work great. I suspect there may be >some programs that will not allow the use of special characters. For a little >fun, play with the Wingdings font that came with Windows. Some of the >characters are nice to use in personal letters. > >Thank you Fred H. Held for teaching us the easy way to use the Character Map. > >Gene Kunkle >[email protected] > > ==== KUNKEL Mailing List ==== If you have any problems with this list please contact Janet Reinhold, [email protected]