symbol sets and rattlesnake.

[Alan H. Hartley]

Carolyn Quintero wrote:

> Now, can I make macros to use these special
> characters in Outlook Express so I don't have to type in so many codes.  I
> do quite a bit of correspondence in Spanish and need the Spanish
> characters..upside down question mark and exclamation mark, enye, accented
> vowels, umlaut.

On Windows 98 (and XP, I'm sure), if your keyboard is set to
international, you'll be able to type "European" characters easily: for
e with acute accent, for example, type the single quote (acute accent)
followed by e. The single quote will appear dead till the e is struck,
when e-acute magically appears. Same with double quote + u = u-umlaut,
etc. The drawback is that you have to override this automatic feature
if, for instance, you want to type "a..: you have to strike the double
quote twice, when two double quotes will appear, then backspace once and
type the a. For those who use special characters a lot, though, it's
well worth the bother.

Alan