Working with my new Mac and new MS Word 2011.

I cannot find the old familiar character palette with accented Latin letters, foreign letters, fractions, symbols, etc., despite having searched the Word "Help" function and doing a search for "special characters" on this forum.

On my former Mac, it was contained in a drop-down menu from an American flag icon along the top of the screen. It's there in the Mail program on the new Mac, called "Special Characters" as a selection under the "Edit" heading. But I can't find it in Word, which I was willing to pay extra for rather than use Apple's Pages program which is nothing but trouble for me.

A post on this forum mentioned something called "charactermap" which sounds like it would be what I'm looking for, but again, I can't find that anywhere. Entering charactermap into the Help box yields no result.

Oh, what I would give for an old-fashioned users' manual. Can anyone here direct this Luddite simpleton toward that which he seeks?

Don't have a Mac, so guessing...

Insert tab > Symbol? That is where it is in Word 2010.

Voila! There it is; that's exactly what I couldn't find.

Thank you, Charles!

Now if only I knew how to post the "Solved" logo on the thread, all would be wonderful. But I can't figure that one out, either....

You can click on the little green check mark logo on the post that solves the question. (top left)

Charles, the only green checkmark logo I see is on the upper left corner of my reply to your suggestion, not on the original post or on your posted solution. Clicking on the logo does nothing. Double-clicking on it does nothing.

Maybe it's because I'm on a Mac and, therefore, MS doesn't really like me very much. Kinda like Mom and my brother, whom she always liked best.