Thread: Cyrilic letters with accents

This works for me XP/Word2000:

Use Unicode's built-in overstrike diacritics. Windows Word97 and 2000
(and I imagine for the Mac as well) give you access to a great many Unicode
overstrike characters. (Look under Insert Symbol and then scroll through the
symbols until you get to the "combining diacritical mark" set). You can
automate the process by assigning a keystroke to each diacrtical. PLUSSES
(a) You need no extra fonts. (b) I imagine it's doable on the Mac - at least
in later versions of Word. (c) It should print on all printers. (d) It
looks pretty on the screen. MINUS (and for me a big one): It causes Russian
spellcheckers to flag any accented word.

Type дорого
then your macro key (I assigned ctrl+' for the accent.
then the й.
It doesn't work in MR's data entry screen.

My friend says to me that Office 2007 has the same fonts as Office 2010. I have seen every font in my PC and I haven't found these letters. I didn't do nothing before, simply searched and found as an extra in every font these letters и, я, ю, ы with an orthographical accent. I will say to the technician who monted the PC and installed the software to install the Office being in the, by now, dead PC with XP. I wish he could bring to life the PC for both happiness (that of PC and mine ). He is on holidays till end of month. Thank you

From Ramil:
A nice thing about macros is that you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it. Of course you can use Insert Symbol dialog box, but imagine when you're typing a rather large text and you need to insert acute accents to all of the words. Your typing will be turtle slow if you switch from keyboard to mouse and back constantly.


To Ramil:
I have been trying what you have said and the macro works fine... but in Spanish (grrrrr !!) not in Russian. I have changed tha language at the botton of screen, I have changed the font and it is the same, it works perfectly in Spanish but not in Russian, it pays no внимание abt my commands. By now it is not a problem, I have an other solution so... Thanks.