Hi all, Not strictly access related but thought someone may know the answer to this? In Word, pressing alt, then a three digit number allows me to type characters such as ü. The list I have is for Times New Roman font, so I set Outlook to this but can't achieve the same results when typing in an e-mail. Someone did once show me how to assign these characters to keys but I can't find the notes anywhere and would really like to be able to do this and am running out of ideas to try!! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kirsty. ** To leave the Access-UK list, send a message with the Subject:- ** unsubscribe ** to access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body ** For other things like setting nomail when on holiday, ** or digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- ** faq ** Please do not put text or signatures in the message body.