As a general rule in Word, you can press Ctrl+ the accent you want to use,
followed by the letter you want accented. So, Ctrl+' followed by e gives you
é, or Ctl+` followed by e gives you è.

If you need a more comprehensive and natural solution, look into installing
foreign keyboard support in the Languages toolbar.

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"jld55" wrote in message
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I want to insert accent marks directly on top of letters, e.g., "Alarcon"
with the accent mark over the "o" rather than the mark breaking up the
word
such as "Alarc[accent mark space]on" or "Alarco[accent space]n" or
Alarcon[accent mark after "n"]. This name happens to be Hispanic. Do I
need
to switch to Spanish to get the mark? I see a tildee in the Symbols menu
and
it works directly over the "n". Another example is "de ja vu" (French)
placing the regular accent mark over the "e" and a backwards accent mark
over
the "a". I see it printed this way in a dictionary.