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Word of the Day: Naive

Em in Ohio said:
If I had any idea how to get my laptop to do that, I would! (-:
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I wonder if you are too naive , where computers are concerned, to know how to do it; Or if it is not an available function on the laptop?

I am definitely too naïve to know the answer!

WOW! I am shocked, i got it!!!!! :oops::ROFLMAO::LOL:
 
Matrix said:
Press "alt" key and hold it down, then press and release 1, 3, 7 on numpad one by one.
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Saving it this time! Trying it now: a a137 naive na - (not working) ... When do you type it, before the letter 'a' or after or before the word or after the word? Press and hold all at the same time or one at a time? Maybe it won't work like that on this HP laptop with 'American' layout... hmmm... numeric key pad not working, but I've never used it... hmmm.... Oh well, naive it is!
 
Em in Ohio said:
Saving it this time! Trying it now: a a137 naive na - (not working) ... When do you type it, before the letter 'a' or after or before the word or after the word? Press and hold all at the same time or one at a time? Maybe it won't work like that on this HP laptop with 'American' layout... hmmm... numeric key pad not working, but I've never used it... hmmm.... Oh well, naive it is!
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Forget about the letter "a".

Push the alt key and hold it down, then push the 1, 3, 7 keys on the numeric keypad, and voila, ë, one fancy-schmancy dieresis. :)
 
Aunt Marg said:
Forget about the letter "a".

Push the alt key and hold it down, then push the 1, 3, 7 keys on the numeric keypad, and voila, ë, one fancy-schmancy dieresis. :)
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Ha - it comes up as a new tab in Google search that shows it : ë Is that how you did it? If so, how do you get a, i, etc?
 
Em. I see now where you may be having trouble. When I type the word naïve, the dieresis is entered automatically, so my suggestion to you is to save "naïve" to your dictionary by right clicking on the word naïve, that way it will be there automatically for you in the future.

The code that Matrix posted works for making the dieresis character only
 
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@Em in Ohio , numpad has two working modes, type "1", if you don't get "1", press "num" on your numpad to switch the mode.

After you can input numbers with your numpad, try again:

Press "alt" and hold it down
Press 0 and release
Press 2 and release
Press 3 and release
Press 9 and release
Release "alt"

Now you should get ï.
 
naive
Aunt Marg said:
Em. I see now where you may be having trouble. When I type the word naïve, the dieresis is entered automatically, so my suggestion to you is to save "naïve" to your dictionary by right clicking on the word naïve, that way it will be there automatically for you in the future.

The code that matrix posted works for making the dieresis character only
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I give up - It just isn't happening. It doesn't even give me the option to add it to my dictionary... but, it does for other words..... hmmm.... Thanks for trying, folks....Good night!
 
Matrix said:
@Em in Ohio , numpad has two working modes, type "1", if you don't get "1", press "num" on your numpad to switch the mode.

After you can input numbers with your numpad, try again:

Press "alt" and hold it down
Press 0 and release
Press 2 and release
Press 3 and release
Press 9 and release
Release "alt"

Now you should get ï.
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1 - okay, got numpad working by hitting 'num lock'..

ï HAHA - I got an 'i' !!!! Thanks!
 
From the link that @SeaBreeze posted in another thread:

These are the numeric codes for uppercase letters with an umlaut:
  • Ä: Alt+0196
  • Ë: Alt+0203
  • Ï: Alt+0207
  • Ö: Alt+0214
  • Ü: Alt+0220
  • Ÿ: Alt+0159

These are the numeric codes for lowercase letters with an umlaut:
  • ä: Alt+0228
  • ë: Alt+0235
  • ï: Alt+0239
  • ö: Alt+0246
  • ü: Alt+0252
  • ÿ: Alt+0255
 
Matrix said:
From the link that @SeaBreeze posted in another thread:

These are the numeric codes for uppercase letters with an umlaut:
  • Ä: Alt+0196
  • Ë: Alt+0203
  • Ï: Alt+0207
  • Ö: Alt+0214
  • Ü: Alt+0220
  • Ÿ: Alt+0159

These are the numeric codes for lowercase letters with an umlaut:
  • ä: Alt+0228
  • ë: Alt+0235
  • ï: Alt+0239
  • ö: Alt+0246
  • ü: Alt+0252
  • ÿ: Alt+0255
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Great! Although it makes me want to avoid these words in the future, haha! Still, I saved this to my desktop. (Now I actually want to find more ways to use it, truth be told.)

So, I Googled now that I have a name or two for these and found this:

The diaeresis (/daɪˈɛriːsɪs/ dy-ERR-ee-sis; also known as the tréma) and the umlaut are two different homoglyphic diacritical marks. They both consist of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, usually a vowel.

A different method: Hold down the "Ctrl" and "Shift" keys, and then press the colon key. Release the keys, and then type a vowel in upper or lower case. Use Office's Unicode shortcut combination to put an umlaut over a non-vowel character. (Not yet tested!)

na - nope, didn't work for me using Windows 10.

Next trick that I'd like to learn is how to input long and short vowel sound symbols in words...I'm sure I knew the words for these things once upon a time, but you know that I'm a NAVE!
 
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