The doccument below includes some methods for creating diacritic markings like umlaut-v, umlaut-w, and others.

These were created to help a professor with a project where she was translating ancient Middle-High German.

Note that MS Word likes to create these surrounded by blank space.  You need to manually edit that space out.

Insert->Field
	Select Equations and Formulias
	Select Eq
	Enter text like EQ \o(v, ¨)
	Click OK
Then, control click on the character to select Toggle Field Codes.
You'll see the equation for this character rendered like this:
	{ EQ \o(v, ¨) }
Change it to this:
	{EQ \o(v, ¨)}

Examples:
umlaut-v 	{EQ \o(v,¨)}
umlaut-w	{EQ \o(w,¨)}
u with e over 	{EQ \o(u,\s\up6(e))}
u with o over 	{EQ \o(u,\s\up6(o))}
o with e over 	{EQ \o(o,\s\up7(e))}

The \o is for overstrike and places characters between the parenthesis over top of one another.
The \s is for superscript and produces a smaller font in a higher location.
The \up# moves the character up # points.

Brought to you courtesy of Paul Nord.

17 April 2006