Once again, Word’s so-called intelligent behaviour is proving to be more of a hindrance than a help.
My aim is in theory quite simple:
I want to continue using the French keyboard layout (AZERTY) and be able to enter Spanish characters (accented vowels etc).
This seems impossible in Word 2007.
I thought about a solution using Auto-Correct, where for example
"a-" is corrected to "á"
"i-" is corrected to "í"
In Word, Auto-Correct entries are necessarily attached to a particular language (even though this is not at all apparent from the entry window).
So I Set Language to English for the entire document before entering my Auto-Correct entries.
The problem is that Word auto-detects the language as I am typing so when it detects that the text is in Spanish (i.e. not English), the Auto-Correct entries are not applied.
I've had a good look but cannot find a way to swtich off auto-detection of languages so I assume that this is not an option.
Anyone have any ideas?
Andreas
[Edited at 2010-08-22 11:07 GMT]
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Maybe I have misunderstood and admittedly I don't yet have Word 2007 but I can type in the odd "foreign" letter using either the ALT codes or by going into "Insertion" and then "caractères spéciaux". I presume that since you have AZERTY, you also have commands in French ?
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Natalie Poland Local time: 14:56 Member (2002) English to Russian + ...
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Hi Andreas
Aug 22, 2010
The best thing is turning off language auto-detection in Word and assign language manually.
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Aude Sylvain France Local time: 14:56 English to French + ...
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Aug 22, 2010
You may use that small app to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific characters.
I don't think you need to deactivate the language auto-recognition (which can be useful!)
You may use that small app to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific characters.
I don't think you need to deactivate the language auto-recognition (which can be useful!)
This is also easy to use Word Macro + its keyboard shortcut for a quick assigment.
Best regards,
Soonthon Lupkitaro
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I replied earlier but don't know where my reply has gone.
I found the Language AutoDetect so swtiched it off - now I can enter Spanish characters.
The snag is that I have to enter a space then the shortcut (eg "a-"), then go back and delete the extra space (all this because AutoCrrect entries are considered to be words).
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The solution with the shortcut assignment is perfect!!!
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Aude Sylvain France Local time: 14:56 English to French + ...
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Aug 22, 2010
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
Aude Sylvain wrote:
You may use that small app to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific characters.
I don't think you need to deactivate the language auto-recognition (which can be useful!)
This is also easy to use Word Macro + its keyboard shortcut for a quick assigment.
Best regards,
Soonthon Lupkitaro
Hi Soonthon,
You're absolutely right!
I had forgotten that the asker was only concerned with MS Word.
Clavier+'s great aspect is that the keyboard shortcuts would work in any other application (e.g. standalone CAT tools. This saves me a *lot* of time in WFP for instance, no need to use the characters table any more to type É, À, french quotes « etc.).
And as far as MS Word is concerned, I believe that Clavier+ can be used while not turning-off the language auto-recognition feature - and I do find the feature is useful sometimes, but that's very personal...
[Edited at 2010-08-22 16:54 GMT]
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