ALT+X For special character doesn't work

[whirlingdust]

Hello! In LibreOffice, Microsoft Word and WordPad for Windows you can do next: write, for example, after letter in wo0301rd, and press ALT+X for insert accent to letter "o", its very useful, but in OpenOffice Writer this trick not working?

[RoryOF]

Try Ctrl Shift U, release, then a four digit code and press Enter. This works on linux - I can't speak for Windows.

[keme]

For many languages there is an optional keyboard setup with "dead keys". Those dead keys are the accents, to be pressed before the character to be accented. "Dead" because they do not cause cursor movement on their own.

In some locales the dead keys setup is the default and is not labeled "Dead keys".There will then be the optional "no dead keys" keyboard setup.

[whirlingdust]

Try Ctrl Shift U, release, then a four digit code and press Enter. This works on linux - I can't speak for Windows.

thx for help, but this method not working for me

[John_Ha]

Search the forum with add accent

[jrkrideau]

Insert > Special Character > and you should find it in the Basic Latin fonts

[MrProgrammer]

Hi, and welcome to the forum.

after letter in wo0301rd, and press ALT+X for insert accent to letter "o

U+0301 is the Combining Acute Accent (Insert → Special Character → Subset=Combining Diacritical Marks). You could also use U+00F3, which is Latin Small Letter O with Acute (Insert → Special Character → Subset=Latin-1). Or, insert any character with Unicode input.

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