Re: Ms Word 2003 question
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:13:47 -0800
Dear Mr. sprat,
if you continue reading your messages, I believe you'll see there was more
to this than first met your eye, so to speak. don't worry, and please don't
chastise me for my mistaken message. I'd appreciate that very much.
thanks for your kind consideration.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Spratt" <A.Spratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Ms Word 2003 question
This sort of message is best left for "reply to sender." Jerry's message was
a constructive effort to respond to one of the points made in the message
that started this thread. Anyone who hasn't worked with WordPerfect is
unlikely to have understood it, and so his offering a suggestion makes
clarification possible.
Picking up on your follow-up message, WordPerfect's "reveal codes" has
nothing to do with spaces. Spaces are handled much the same way in WP as in
MS Word.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: Ms Word 2003 question
Jerry,
I already read and understood your message to the list. This message below
reads exactly like that one, as if you aren't actually responding to my
message, or didn't find it explanatory in any way. Never mind. I wasn't
quibbling with you calling the codes "markers," if that's what Word calls
them. No problem. No hassle. I was just telling you some stuff.
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
----- Original Message -----
From: "G.W. Cox" <gwcox2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: Ms Word 2003 question
I assume by codes, we mean markers. In Word The key combination to toggle
this on and off is control shift 8.
----- Original Message -----
From: Yardbird
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Ms Word 2003 question
Hi,
I didn't understand your strategy for doing something in a form, as you
describe it, but I'm not familiar with such tasks as I regularly use Word.
So I'm glad you figured out something you can do that's satisfactory. And I
don't know ho to position a cursor in a specific place on the screen in
terms of coordinates. But as for revealing codes, here's a suggestion:
open the Options. Alt T, O. This is a multiple-tab dialogue. control tab and
stop at the View page of the dialogue.
Now tab through the items, and you'll come to a number of options for
revealing or hiding characters that may fulfilled your needs for revealing
at leas some of the underlying codes. Check the appropriate boxes to toggle
these items to the state you desire, and press OK to exit.
Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Yacks" <lyacks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: Ms Word 2003 question
Thank you all. The reason I was looking for the answer to this question is
that I am filling out a form that has the _ character and I wanted to use
the strikeover characters to keep the underline character there as well as
the character I am filling in. I used to do this in WP. Anyway, I just fixed
the form so that I replaced the _ characters with spaces and then underlined
them. Now I can use the typeover mode and still have the underline in place
and the form field will remain about the same size. I have a couple of beefs
with Word, and this might be one. The other is that in WP you used to be
able to tell it to go to an exact coordinate on a page and type there. If
that can be done in Word, I haven't found it. It would also be really nice
to be able to reveal all the codes. Anyway, that's my rant! Thanks for the
help. Linda
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Griffiths, Steve
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:00 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Ms Word 2003 question
Linda,
This is one of those areas where Word and WordPerfect are different. In Word
you can indicate a number of international characters in two steps; first
you indicate the accent and then you indicate the character. To get an N
with a tilda over it, you press Control + tilde (on a UK keyboard, that's
Control + Shift + #), then press n. Note that nothing seems to happen when
you press the keys that denote the accent, and you have to press the
character within about 5 seconds of indicating the accent.
JAWS also has a way of inserting accented characters; press Insert + 4 to
get a list. You can use this in any edit area, not just Word.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Linda Yacks
Sent: 12 January 2008 21:39
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Ms Word 2003 question
Hi, I have a question.
When I was working a very long time ago (grin) I used Wordperfect. There was
a way to type two characters on top of each other. I think it was called
"strikeover". Does anyone know how to do this in MS Word? I have searched
the help screens and find no answer. I am of the opinion that the help area
in 2003 is worse instead of better than previous versions. I need to type an
"n" with a tilda over it. This trick can come in handy every once in a
while. Thank you. Linda
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