Word 97 or 2000 able to insert umlauts?

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I know that in Word 2003 you can press Ctrl+" (quotation marks) and
get an umlaut over the next character/vowel that you type. I do this
quickly and easily to get these foreign (i.e., non-English) marks--
including the enye.

I read that this is also able to be done in Word 2000. Is this true?
How about Word 97?
 
You can look in the Symbol dialog box to find out the key combination that can
be used on your system.
 
Which keyboard are you using? The shortcut in English (US) is Ctrl-:
(colon), not quotation marks.
 
True.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Which keyboard are you using? The shortcut in English (US) is Ctrl-:
(colon), not quotation marks.
 
For once, it's the same shortcut on my Swedish keyboard: Ctrl+: (or actually
Ctrl+Shift+.).
 
That's interesting in and of itself, as here (U.S. keyboard) the colon is a
shifted semicolon, and a shifted period (full stop) is >.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
One factor is å, ä, ö, which we (obviously) have keys for. I guess that creates
the need to move things around. :-)
 
I'm using the US-English keyboard. Yes you are correct, the colon will
get you the umlaut--I was thinking of other programs that have other
such shortcuts.
 
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