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Out of curiosity, when you were assigning your keyboard shortcut which combination did you use?

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...

Sub InsertAcuteAccent()
Selection.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=&H301, Unicode:=True
End Sub

Add a module to your Normal.dot, add this sub to it and assign a hotkey

But I don't see how typing unicode + 0301 differs from pasting it from the keyboard...

That's strange, works as charm on my system.

Copy the acute accent character in the clipboard and paste it after the letters you want to put accent onto.

Any unicode font has this Acute Accent character (Unicode U+0301)
You can put a keyboard shortcut for this character in MS Word or use Insert symbol option. It's a combining diactic character that...