Hi Kirsty, Although the ANSI table shows a three digit number, you need to add a zer= o in front of it in Windows. Hence a lower case u with diaeresis would be Alt + 0252, and Upper Case A= lt + 0220. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf = Of Kirsty Sent: 20 June 2004 13:41 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Foreign characters in e-mail. Hi all, Not strictly access related but thought someone may know the answer to th= is? In Word, pressing alt, then a three digit number allows me to type charac= ters such as =C3=BC. The list I have is for Times New Roman font, so I se= t 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 t= his and am running out of ideas to try!! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kirsty. =20 ** 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. =0AThis Message has been scanned for viruses by McAfee Groupshield. ** 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.