How to Type Diacritical Alphabets / Special Characters
Dear,
I am looking for the solution of following issues in MS Word and Excel 2007 Onward Applications:
Our group members currently working in typing English articles on different chapters / topics and we are currently facing some problem with the same.
We seek your kind help for the solution of following issues that are being faced currently:
How to set the diacritical alphabets / special characters on your keyboard keys e.g. if I want to type Ā,
then i just use the following command to type the same.
How it is possible that I can easily type the special characters / diacritical alphabets with one combination only i.e. "Alt + a" for lower case alphabet e.g.
ā & "Alt+Shift+a" for upper case e.g. Ā, using the keyboard in U.S language.
Is there any option / add-in in MS Word / MS Excel that gives me solution of drop down option / suggestions of the word(s) to be typed.
- Spell check option with accurate suggestion(s) of diacritical words to be made available.
Seeking the solution of above matters anxiously.
Regards,
Kamran Damji
The symbols that are available when you go to Insert|Symbol depends on what font you have selected when you open that dialogue or what other font you choose from the Fonts dropdown.
I cannot see how developing an exe file would help - your users would still have to activate it and choose the desired character(s). A possible solution would be for you to create a series of Autotext entries for the symbols you require then distribute those
to your users. See:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/add-autotext-HA010255209.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326538
For the spell-checking, you should use an appropriate Paragraph Style or Character Style for the Arabic text, with the Style's language set to the appropriate Arabic dialect, and make sure that Style is applied to the text in question. You will also
need to have the same Arabic dialect installed as a Proofing Language (see File|Options>Language).
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]
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