hi Bozo and Guest Ed.

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately none of these worked for me using the ALTKEY Code or the other suggestins listed.

I was able to fudge it so that I can get accented characters using INSERT in my word processing prog.but am not able to get exclamation marks,question marks etc.

I don't know whether this affects anything but I use Microsoft Works Word.

cheers and thanks

MikeL2