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<<June 11, 2004>>

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Keyboard shortcuts for adding foreign language accents in Word 2002

Even if you're not a foreign language speaker, you're likely at some point to use foreign language words that have been adopted into the English lexicon. Some foreign language words employ accent marks, such as risumi, dij` vu, pbti, and voil`. Although speaking these words aloud can be challenging, typing them in your documents can be even more so when you need to include various accent marks over certain characters. One method is to choose Insert | Symbol from Word's menu bar and use the Symbol dialog box to insert accented characters.

Another method is to use ASCII character codes. However, if you find the Symbol dialog box tedious, and you find ASCII character codes too difficult to memorize, you can quickly create many accented characters using the [Ctrl] key. We've listed some of the more common accent marks below. To create the indicated accent mark, press the corresponding keyboard shortcut and then type the character you'd like to apply the accent to. Keep in mind that some of the accents we've illustrated below are often used with other letters, too. Just replace the letter that we used in the example with the letter of your choice. In addition, to create accented capital letters, press [Shift] as you type the letter. Continue experimenting to find other accent shortcuts, or access the Symbols dialog box to look them up.

g [Ctrl][,] followed by c
i [Ctrl]['] followed by e
h [Ctrl][`] followed by e
x [Ctrl][/] followed by o
b [Ctrl][^] ([Ctrl][Shift]6) followed by a
e [Ctrl][@] ([Ctrl][Shift]2) followed by a
| [Ctrl][:] ([Ctrl][Shift][;]) followed by u
q [Ctrl][~] ([Ctrl][Shift][`]) followed by n

Format your cell borders with new ease in Excel 2002

Cell borders do a lot to improve a worksheet's readability, but prior to Excel 2002 they were often a pain to set up and maintain. Although the Borders palette supplies you with several predefined border formats, customizing a border in Excel 2000 and earlier often requires a trip to the cumbersome Borders sheet found in the Format Cells dialog box. Because you frequently need to perform minor fixes to your borders when you move or paste cells, such trips to the Format Cells dialog box aren't uncommon. Excel 2002 improves upon the process with the addition of the Draw Borders feature. To use this feature, open the Borders palette and click the Draw Borders button. Doing so displays the Borders toolbar and automatically turns your mouse pointer into a pencil icon. As the feature's name suggests, you can add borders by simply clicking and drawing along the edges of cells you want enclosed by a border. The Line Style and Line Color buttons on the Borders toolbar let you quickly set the border's attributes. If you want to create a grid instead of just a border that surrounds the outside edges of a range, click on the dropdown arrow next to the Draw Border button (which resembles a pencil) and choose Draw Border Grid. To remove border lines, click the Erase Border button and draw over the border edges you want cleared. When you've finished, simply close the Borders toolbar to restore Excel's usual cell selection mouse pointer.


 

See the detail behind summary values in Access 2002's PivotTable view

 

One of Access 2002's most exciting new features is the PivotTable view. Similar to crosstab queries, this view lets you look at summaries of information grouped by row and column categories. If you're unfamiliar with crosstab queries, the results look similar to something you might create in Excel. For instance, you can show sums of revenue by sales rep (listed as row headings) by month (displayed as column headings). The cell at the intersection point of a row and column contains a summary value.

Unlike crosstab queries (or even Excel's similar PivotTable feature), PivotTable view can also display the detail information behind the summary calculations. Each row and column heading in the PivotTable includes plus and minus controls that are used to toggle the display of the detail information. However, you can also drill down to the detail for a particular summary without displaying a lot of extraneous data. To do so, simply double-click on the summary cell you're interested in. The column expands to show the appropriate detail data. To rehide the data, simply double-click on the summary value again.

 

 

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