This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lcC.2ACI/268.2 Message Board Post: Who are you calling a Norwegian character? ;-) Seriously, you can do it in a number of ways. The way I usually remember seems to be the most difficult. Open up Microsoft Word as a New Document, use the Insert -> Symbol menu, a box pops up with international characters. Add the ø Ø å Å æ or Æ that way. Then highlight the character and copy <ctrl>C from the document and paste <ctrl>V into the doc. I just did that here. There is a shortcut key for each of them on the US English keyboard also that people tell me about, but I never remember. Maybe someone else does.