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How do I type French symbols. IE: accents
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Hello there,
If you want =E1=E9=ED=F3=FA you hold down the Alt Gr key (to the=20 right of the spacebar)while typing the letter. If you want any others: 1. Insert + Symbol. 2. Choose the font you are using. 3. Choose the symbol you would like to type. If you look at the bottom right hand side of the dialogue=20 box you will see the keyboard shortcut for it. You will=20 have to remember the shortcuts. Alternatively, you can use the Character Map provided=20 with Windows: 1. Start + Programs + Accessories + System Tools +=20 Character Map. This can be open all the time and you can minimize it=20 when you are not using it. Hope this helps Judith -----Original Message----- . |
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Before someone gives you the stock, stupid, answer of installing a French
keyboard layout, if you only need to type in Word, there are many intuitive shortcuts built in to Word. e.g. to type á, you type Ctrl+' then a. Look up "keyboard shortcuts for international characters" in Word's help for more. If you're writing text in French (rather than just correctly spelling loan-words such as café and résumé), then you may want to manually change the langauge of the text you write (tools language set language) so the spell checker knows what it is, although it should auto-detect. If you need to type in other applications you will need to condsider another option, such as installing another keybaord layout. Installing a French one is not going to be a good idea unless you are a touch-typing genius with a photographic memory, otherwise you'll never remember where all the special characters are (for that matter you'll have a job finding the "a"). But you can install either the US International or United Kingdom Extended layouts which both let you type most characters you would need in French. you can have more than one layout installed and switch with left alt+shift Do this in Control Panel Regional and Language Options Languages Details Add With USI, you type e.g. ' then a for á, " then e for ë etc With UKE, you type AltGr (right alt) and ' then a for á, AltGr+2, e for ë etc The UK Extended the better one, as with the US International you will find yourself repeatedly typing things like ä quote" instead of "a quote". You can look up the keyboard layouts (and see why you don't want the French one) he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.aspx |
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Was there something wrong with the answers you got to your identical
question yesterday? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Dawnpierre" wrote in message ... |
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