The mystery of how to easily produce Esperanto's accented letters in Microsoft Word, without any download, is unveiled. 
Netscape users: If you see question marks (?) on your screen when viewing the following -- Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ -- the problem might disappear if you click "Back", allow the previous webpage to appear, then click "Forward". If you succeed, Netscape will show Esperanto's accented letters and allow you to print them on paper. Surprisingly, Internet Explorer 6.0 sometimes leaves the accents off when printing. 	
Shortcut Keys set-up: First of all, would-be users have the easy task of setting up "keystroke shortcuts", as follows:- 
1.	Open Microsoft® Word© 2000, or 97. 
2.	Move the mouse pointer to the Menu Bar near the top. Click: Insert, then Symbol. 
3.	Ensure that the tab at the front is "Symbols". 
4.	Ensure that the "Font" panel shows "(normal text)". (Word 97 users, take particular note.) 
5.	On the bottom line (without scrolling) of letters, fourth from the left, click the capital circumflexed Ĉ. (In Word 97, it is second from the left) 
6.	Click [Shortcut Key]. Normally the "Save changes in" should read "Normal.dot". 
7.	Alt + Shift + C (this means, hold down [Alt] and [Shift] while you press C). You will see the keystroke combination you just made in a panel named "Press new shortcut key". 
8.	Click [Assign]. This will assign that keystroke shortcut to capital C circumflex, that is, Ĉ. 
9.	Click [Close]. 
(Assign next character) 
10.	See the small circumflexed ĉ to the right of the Ĉ, and click it. 
11.	Click [Shortcut Key]. 
12.	Alt + c. 
13.	Click [Assign]. 
14.	Click [Close]. 
And so on, right through to Ŭ and ŭ -- with breves ( ˘ ), not the circumflexes ( ^ ) like the rest. 
When typing a word such as "aĉeti," all you have to do is to hold down [Alt] and type "c" to get the ĉ. If a capital Ĉ is required, hold down the [Alt] plus [Shift] keys before pressing the C. 
This method removes two standard keyboard shortcuts, namely [Alt] + C to close a pane, and [Alt] + H which opens Help. The latter can more easily be accessed by either clicking "Help" or by pressing the [F1] key. 
FONTS: Most popular fonts will accept the Esperanto accents successfully, and here is a selection:- 
Arial 	Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ 	
Comic Sans MS 	Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ 	
Courier New 	Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ 	
Times New Roman 	Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ 	
Verdana 	Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ 	
Doc. 231. Internet Address = http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/nofonts.htm 
John Massam, 46 Cobine Way, Greenwood (a suburb of Perth), W.A., 6024, Australia. +61 ( 0 ) 8 9343 9532, 0408 054 319 
Fonts that take the accents attractively include: Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Andale Mono, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Garamond, Georgia, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode, Monotype Corsiva, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana, and Verdana Ref. 
In past years Esperantists had invented programmes and devised special Esperanto fonts, but now the need for these might be less because of the improving technology. 
The International Language can now be publicised as a practical tongue, no longer requiring time-consuming knowledge of typefaces and computer applications in order to render it correctly on paper. 

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