German and Finnish languages often require an “umlaut.” I don’t know how to use one in Libre Office.
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@samurai1, Take a look at Diaeresis (diacritic) - Wikipedia. Probably you will need to change your keyboard layout.
Have you tried searching to see if anyone case considered this question before? For example the query "How do I type a simple umlaut in Libre Office? " could be relevant. äü äü
Of course the answer varies slightly depending on your computer setup.
Hello,
Ä: type C4 followed by ALT+X (or ALT+C in some locales)
ä: type E4 followed by ALT+X
Ö: type `D6` followed by `ALT+X` ö: type `F6` followed by `ALT+X`
Ü: type `DC` followed by `ALT+X` ü: type `FC` followed by `ALT+X`
if you don’t want to install additional keyboard layouts on your operating system and you don’t want to switch keyboard layout and text language while editing German text (which would be the way to go, if you are working multi-lingual texts).
Insert > Special Character…
gives you a point-and-click menu of characters.
At the top right, you can select a “subset”; the ones you may be interested in are
- Latin-1 (examples: ä,ö,ü,ß,ø)
- Latin Extended-A (example: ł,œ)
I do not know the Northern European languages well enough to tell you about Finnish characters, but they should be in there somewhere.
(Availability of characters beyond Latin-1 may depend on whether you have fonts installed with Unicode support)