Assign keyboard shortcuts for special characters.

I am using Microsoft Word 08 and taking a Latin course. I want to be able to make a keyboard shortcut to insert the long symbols over vowel: Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū ā ē ī ō ū. When I go to Insert then Symbol none of these show up on the pallet. As of now I have to copy and paste every vowel individually from the save file in which it is currently written.

I've already checked out that list, but it doesn't include the ones I'm looking for.
Go to system prefs/international/input menu and check the box for US Extended, plus the box for "show input menu in Finder." Then select US Extended in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder.
The characters you need can then be made by typing Option/alt + a, followed by the base character. Some fonts may work better than others.
Here is a list:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html

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Wow! Thank you very much for your very clear explanations Barney-15E!
Here is what I get when I try to do what you said (and what is actually what I have been doing up to now).
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