Dear
all!
Alternatively
you can just open the symbols page in Word and set shortcuts for the small
letter umlauts, e.g. CTRL+a for ä, CTRL+u for ü. This will remove the original shortcuts
(like CTRL-u = underline), but it works so much faster when typing a German
letter in Word. You still have to either use the ALT-method or the symbols page
for capital Umlauts, but in general the small letter umlauts are much more
common and it speeds up things a lot for me.
In
the newer Word 2007 you proceed like this:
Symbols>more
symbols>go on letter>shortcut key>add new shortcut, remove old one if
necessary
Best
wishes
Alexander
Alexander
Burdumy
DAAD-Lektor
School of
Languages & Social Sciences
Aston
University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham, B4
7ET
United Kingdom
NW911
0121 204 3793
From: JISCmail German Studies List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Howard Gaskill
Sent: 01 November 2009 12:22
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Subject: Re: Hans Hahn, Umlautlos
On 1 Nov 2009 at
11:53, Alan R Deighton wrote:
>
Yes, a German keyboard driver (Tastaturbelegung) is the answer and it does work
with Vista too. It's a
>
nuisance at first if you've learned to touch-type in English. If you're like me
and haven't, you'll want to put
>
sticky labels on the keys to show where the new signs are and the old ones have
moved too, (or get a friend
>
in Germany to send you a keyboard) but you soon get used to it. The advantage
is that, with the exception of
>
the pound sign, the range of signs available directly from the German system is
wider, and you don't have to
>
switch to anything else to type English.
Just to confirm that
it does indeed work with Vista, via Control Panel/Regional and Language
Options/Keyboards and Languages, adding German to English. It's easy enough to
locate the German characters, but instead of trying to remember where the
English ones have gone I find it easier to toggle
between the two
keyboards -- the default is (left) Alt+Shift.
Howard Gaskill