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Making Irish shortcuts on WORD 2010: éíóú

Seanchai · 2012-09-01 19:56:55

I posted over on the Gaeilge forum but nobody seemed to have an answer. I have a new computer with WORD Starter 2010 installed. On all previous versions of WORD I would press 'alt', 'ctrl' and the vowel and I get all of the long vowels: áéíóú, and 'alt', 'ctrl', 'Shift' and the vowel and I get them in caps: ÁÉÍÓÚ. No…

01-09-2012 8:56pm

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I posted over on the Gaeilge forum but nobody seemed to have an answer.

I have a new computer with WORD Starter 2010 installed. On all previous versions of WORD I would press 'alt', 'ctrl' and the vowel and I get all of the long vowels: áéíóú, and 'alt', 'ctrl', 'Shift' and the vowel and I get them in caps: ÁÉÍÓÚ. No problem.

It works perfectly here on Chrome also, but no longer works in WORD 2010. Yes, I've gone into WORD ==> Insert ==> Symbol ==> More Symbols and then assigned the shortcut key. This worked on previous versions. It doesn't work now and I just cannot seem to be able to overwrite the € symbol, for instance, and replace it with é in that shortcut. Similarly, 'o' gives me Outline; 'i' gives Print. 'u' gives nothing. I want to overwrite all of these. á is the only one of the five long vowels which works anymore.

As you can probably understand, it's fairly time consuming going into Symbols each time I want to get those frequently used letters.

Curiously, 'alt', 'ctrl', shift and the vowel works perfectly in WORD 2010 in giving me capitals: ÁÉÍÓÚ

So, given the above, would anybody know how I can configure WORD 2010 to allow me to use 'alt', ctrl and the vowel to give me é, í, ó, ú?

Thanks.

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#2 01-09-2012 8:58pm

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You probably just need to change the language to English Ireland, it might be set to UK or something like that.

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#3 01-09-2012 9:15pm

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Use AutoIT.

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#4 01-09-2012 9:42pm

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AlmightyCushion wrote: »

You probably just need to change the language to English Ireland, it might be set to UK or something like that.

Strangely this doesn't change it either. I also tried EN English (United Kingdom) and IR Irish (Ireland).

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#5 01-09-2012 9:43pm

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Torqay wrote: »

Use AutoIT.

What's that?

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#6 01-09-2012 9:46pm

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Instead of ctrl + alt try just using Alt Gr. Shift should still work the same.

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#7 01-09-2012 9:49pm

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GarIT wrote: »

Instead of ctrl + alt try just using Alt Gr. Shift should still work the same.

Works perfectly! Thanks. Now to try and get used to a new shortcut, although I'd still prefer the above one which I've been using for many years.

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