This is a comment to Microsoft regarding the insertion of symbols!

When using the regular American keyboard and need to use foreign words with symbols, the process is too difficult and unwieldy.

The box holding the symbols is much too big, and covers too much space on the screen. There’s a lot of space above and below that’s unnecessary.

It should not be necessary to click on the symbol (usually twice) and then click on Insert. One click on the symbol should be enough.

The keyboard shortcuts are extremely and unnecessarily complicated—not usable.



The page jumps when the symbol is inserted—that is, you’re working in the middle of the page, and when you insert a symbol, the line you’re typing on pops up to the top of the page. This is disconcerting, and you have to reorient yourself on the page each time.

It should be simple and easy to insert a diacritical mark while typing quickly.

Years ago when I had a keyboard with a set of extra numbers on the right side, I could simply type in the ascii codes fast in order to get my symbols. That was faster than picking them out one by one from the symbols box—!

Using the keyboard adapted for the other language might conceivably be a solution. However, it’s too difficult to switch keyboards, and you wouldn’t want to have to do that in the middle of a sentence.