Author Topic: Oh my Ghosh!
Jedi_Perigrine  993 posts
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Date Posted: 10/18/08 9:40am Subject: Oh my Ghosh!
Hi Everybody!

So over the last few weeks I've been worrying that I'm not spelling ghosh correctly because I can't do that funny O with the hat over it, like Wiki does: LINK. Does anybody know how to find one of those in MS Word? It's probably annoying and nit-picky, but I'd like to make the spelling as frustratingly accurate as possible. happy

Further experimentation has allowed me to copy and paste the appropriate spelling (Ghôsh) but for next time I'd like to know how to do it myself. grin

Thanks guys!

 

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Idrelle_Miocovani  9117 posts
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Date Posted: 10/18/08 9:52am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
I have MS Word 2003, and am using accents frequently. Basically, what I would do, would go to “Insert”. Click on “Symbol.” There will be a big, long list of all the speciality characters. Find the one you’re looking for (in this case, ô) and click insert.

After that, I usually spell out the word or name that uses the special character. I copy it and go to “AutoCorrect” options under “Tools.” There’s two boxes there – “Replace” and “With.” Under “With”, I paste the word/name, then type the word/name without the specialized character under “Replace.” For example, I have Padmé saved to AutoCorrect. “Padme” went under “Replace” and “Padmé” went under “With.” That way, whenever I type her name out, my compuer always changes it immediately to Padmé.

That should solve your ghôsh problems. happy

Hopefully I explained that right, I’m terrible at explaining things. silly

 

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DarthBerryStraw  1097 posts
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Date Posted: 10/18/08 9:56am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh! - Date Edited: 10/18/08 9:57am (1 edits total) Edited By: DarthBerryStraw
The circumflex!

Depending on what word processor you're using, you'll find "Insert" in a different place. Once you find "Insert," click "Symbol." It should be in there.

edit: Then listen to Idri so you don't have to do this every time. tongue

 

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Jedi_Perigrine  993 posts
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Date Posted: 10/18/08 10:02am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh! - Date Edited: 10/18/08 10:05am (1 edits total) Edited By: Jedi_Perigrine
Idrelle, your instructions were perfect. If there's anything else I need explained I'm coming to YOU first. grin Thanks very much!

Berry, thanks for your input as well. happy

 

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Idrelle_Miocovani  9117 posts
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50635_H1239: Draco Malfoy
Date Posted: 10/18/08 10:08am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
No problem! hugs I write in French and am taking Spanish classes, so I'm quite used to dealing with accents. tongue

 

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Jedi_Perigrine  993 posts
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Date Posted: 10/18/08 10:42am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
I took a ton of Spanish in high school, as well as a wee bit of German. When I was in school, we didn't use computers for assignments. Then in college I took some Japanese. It's really tough to make our alphabet somehow morph into Japanese characters, so again...no computers. I don't know if 'puters are a blessing or a curse for foriegn languages. grin

On the flip side...I found the more you learn about other languages, the more English rules begin to make sense, even though they really don't sometimes. Do you find that too?

 

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Date Posted: 10/18/08 4:32pm Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
A language teacher once told me that the best way to learn more about English is to learn another language and I agree.

I want to learn Latin!

 

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Jedi_Perigrine  993 posts
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Date Posted: 10/18/08 10:40pm Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
You're courageous! Someday maybe I'll give Latin a shot, but I want to know more about the other modern Romance languages. I should probably start with French, since I live in a partially French speaking country now. grin

 

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Alexis_Wingstar  3235 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 3:45am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
Idrelle_Miocovani posted:
I have MS Word 2003, and am using accents frequently. Basically, what I would do, would go to “Insert”. Click on “Symbol.” There will be a big, long list of all the speciality characters. Find the one you’re looking for (in this case, ô) and click insert.

After that, I usually spell out the word or name that uses the special character. I copy it and go to “AutoCorrect” options under “Tools.” There’s two boxes there – “Replace” and “With.” Under “With”, I paste the word/name, then type the word/name without the specialized character under “Replace.” For example, I have Padmé saved to AutoCorrect. “Padme” went under “Replace” and “Padmé” went under “With.” That way, whenever I type her name out, my compuer always changes it immediately to Padmé.

That should solve your ghôsh problems. happy

Hopefully I explained that right, I’m terrible at explaining things. silly



I have a question for you. If you do that copy and replace, into the AutoCorrect, can you have it change the occurances of the words you wanted replaced in documents you had previously? For example, I have a story with Padme in it that I wrote and saved long ago. Can I go back to that story and get the autocorrect to go over the document and change all the occurances of Padme to the correct form without going through the whole story manually?

 

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Idrelle_Miocovani  9117 posts
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50635_H1239: Draco Malfoy
Date Posted: 10/19/08 6:50am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
As far as I know, you can't. You'd have to go in and take all the Padme's out and put them back in manually. sad

 

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Alexis_Wingstar  3235 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 8:17am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
Idrelle_Miocovani posted:
As far as I know, you can't. You'd have to go in and take all the Padme's out and put them back in manually. sad


Bummer! Well, thankfully it was only a vignette then! laugh Thanks for the info, I_M grin

 

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Idrelle_Miocovani  9117 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 9:26am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
laugh I was going to say, if it's a vignette, then it's not too much trouble. If it's a full-length epic or something, don't bother. tongue

I don't know any ways around it, but perhaps someone much more computer savvy than me can tell us if there's an alternative. tongue

 

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Jaina_Solo_Goddess  357 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 9:32am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
Actually, if your Word reacts the same as mine, I think there is a way to replace all of the words at once. You hit control-F, then click on the tab that says "Replace" on the box that pops up.

You enter in the word you want changed in the "Find what" box, enter the word you want it changed into in the "replace with" box, then hit "Replace all" at the bottom. That should take care of your problem.

 

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Alexis_Wingstar  3235 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 10:00am Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh! - Date Edited: 10/19/08 10:01am (1 edits total) Edited By: Alexis_Wingstar
Jaina_Solo_Goddess posted:
Actually, if your Word reacts the same as mine, I think there is a way to replace all of the words at once. You hit control-F, then click on the tab that says "Replace" on the box that pops up.

You enter in the word you want changed in the "Find what" box, enter the word you want it changed into in the "replace with" box, then hit "Replace all" at the bottom. That should take care of your problem.


yeah, I think that'd work. Thanks J_S_G.

LOL I'm too lazy to type people's names out today. I hope you all don't mind too horribly much. If so, my apologies. Ironically, it occurs to me it would be much simpler typing out the names than the lengthy apology. tongue

Oh, and thank you, J_P (now that I'm in for abbreviations today I can't leave you out wink )for starting this thread in the first place. grin

 

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Jedi_Perigrine  993 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 12:30pm Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
You're welcome A_W! I guess there really IS no such thing as stupid questions, huh? grin For a while I thought the thread was going to deteriorate into an odd language discussion or something. happy

 

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Jaina_Solo_Goddess  357 posts
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Date Posted: 10/19/08 1:28pm Subject: RE: Oh my Ghosh!
No problem with the initials; it is much easier. Just happy to help peace

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