Microsoft KB Archive/31754

Search and Replace for Accented Characters

PSS ID Number: Q31754 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, when you are searching for and/or replacing characters marked with special symbols, such as grave, acute, umlaut, circumflex, and title marks, do the following:


 * 1) In Word 5.0 and 5.1, choose Replace or Find from the Edit menu. (In Word 4.0, choose Change or Find from the Utilities menu. In Word 3.x, choose Change or Find from the Search menu.)
 * 2) Type in the character with the accent mark included.
 * 3) In Word 5.0 and 5.1, select how you want to search from the Search drop- down menu. Then, in all versions of Word, click the appropriate button for the type of search that you want to perform.

Word will select the next occurrence of the character with the indicated accent mark.

In Word 5.1 for the Macintosh, with the U.S. System 6 Layout file installed, you may have to toggle the Match Case box (turn it on) to get the changes made with an umlaut U (may not change from lowercase to uppercase or vice versa), although the Find and Replace box records that the changes were made.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The special symbols referred to above are usually created by holding down the OPTION key while pressing the appropriate accent key, and then typing the actual character above which you want the symbol to appear. For example, to create a letter o with an umlaut over it, press OPTION+U and then type “o” (without quotation marks). To create a letter e with an accent grave above it, press OPTION+` and then type “e”. OPTION+i is the circumflex.

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