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Thank you! The Heximadecimal option worked! (Although using it in this particular application has an odd side-effect that it also triggers one of the drop-down menus, but if I add an ESC key right after the heximadecimal character in the macro the menu disappears again pretty quickly. Klugey, but I can live with that for the moment and hope to figure a better way to deal with it once I've played with it.)

Thanks rberq -- your rapid reply much appreciated -- both seemed promising but unfortunately both methods still ended up pasting garbage characters. Will keep looking.

Hi- I have library system application in which I need to be able to type Unicode characters in (specifically roman letters with diacritics). The application does NOT accept any input of Unicode characters via any combination of keyboard characters (i.e., it is not possible to use a macro that uses a combination of the Unicode value plus escape keys). The application DOES accept input of Unicode characters by three methods -- paste from clipboard, the invoking and clicking on the character in the Windows character map, Zombie keys character map. Since we will need to key in lots of words with diacritics, the Windows character map option is out. Zombie keys might be a possibility, but since we are already using Macro Express and a Chrome Extension to provide productivity tools for this application, I'm reluctant to add yet another "add-on" application to the mix. So, the question is, can the paste from Clipboard option be made use of? I thought of having a Word file for each diacritic-letter combination in question (for example an h with a dot under it), and then having a macro copy the contents of that file of the relevant keyboard to the Clipboard and then pasting it from the clipboard. But I can't figure out a way to copy the contents of a Word file to the Clipboard without opening it. (Having to open the file and highlight and copy the text and close the file each time would be completely unworkable.) Is the answer "no way to do this" or is there some trick out there to copying a Word file to the Clipboard? Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this!