Changing keyboards to type ã and ø characters

These changes will allow the ã and ø characters to be typed using just ctrl+a and ctrl+b

For Word 2007:

1 Open Word, click on button in top left corner

2 Click on ‘Word Options’

3 Click on ‘Customize’ in left menu

4 Click on ‘Customize’ near the bottom

5 In this window, drag the left slider to the bottom to ‘Common Symbols’ and click on that line to highlight it in blue.

Drag the right slider down to the ã symbol, click on it to highlight it.

6 Click on the line in the ‘Current keys’ box which will have ‘Ctrl+~,A’, to highlight it in blue.

Put the cursor into the ‘Press new shortcut key’ box

Press the ‘Ctrl’ and the ‘A’ key down at the same time

The ‘Assign’ box in the bottom left becomes highlighted. Click on the ‘Assign’ button.

7 Repeat the process for ø, using ‘Ctrl’ and ‘o’.

8 For the capital letters, Ã & Ø, do the same using ‘Ctrl’, shift and ‘a’; ‘Ctrl’, shift and ‘o’.