Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!davidlu
From: davidlu@microsoft.UUCP (David Luebbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 questions
Keywords: Word, ASCII
Message-ID: <7179@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 05:24:21 GMT
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Reply-To: davidlu@microsoft.UUCP (David Luebbert)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>>Does anyone out there in netland know if the "code" feature
>>has been excised from Word 4.0?  I can't seem to invoke it in
>>the way 3.02 did it...selecting a char and clicking in the
>>page # box.  

Brian Diehm (Tektronix, Inc.) replies...
>Try Command-Option-Q when the selection is between characters. It lets you
>type in a code. If you select a character and type Command-Option-Q, it tells
>you the code of that character.

>There is a Commands... command to do this: Paste Special Character. The 
>entire feature is undocumented. We found it because one person in the 
>department was VERY persistent, and discovered Command-Option-Q. With that 
>in hand, we tried to find the equivalent command. We filed until we tried to
>assign the Command-Option-Q sequence to another command, when it asked us if
>we wanted to de-assign it from the Paste Special Character command. Voila - 
>we found the magic command name. Armed with all that, we looked it up in the
>documentation. COMPLETELY undocumented.

>Thanks, Microsoft. Thpppppt....
 Actually, it's very easy to get a list of all of Word 4.0's commands key and
 menu assignments by using the Edit/Commands dialog. Simply press the List 
 button. This creates a new document consisting of a table listing every Word 
 command and its current assignments. If you want to know what a command does
 press the Help... button in the dialog. For Paste Special Character the Help
 button produces the text: "Inserts a special font character indicated by
 decimal code you type". The fact that Word can tell you what a command does
 at user request puts the lie to the claim the Paste Special Character command
 is "COMPLETELY undocumented".


 Dave Luebbert
 Microsoft Corporation