Hello Knowledgeable Friend,
I want to explain it using ONLY one example. On my Windows xp I can
type "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways. One way is to
get the "French keyboard" and type 2 on the English keyboard: 2 then
reads é.
I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
(not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
and typing 130 on the right .
Is there another way on some Windows xp to get é without changing
into the "French keyboard"?
I am sure one of you knows the answer.
Thanking you in advance.
Urban
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"URBAN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
> keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
> My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
> type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
> (not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
> and typing 130 on the right .

Reference books nowadays list these extended ASCII
codes with four digits, not three. Have your friends tried
keying Alt 0130 ?

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

"URBAN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello Knowledgeable Friend,
> I want to explain it using ONLY one example. On my Windows xp I can
> type "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways. One way is to
> get the "French keyboard" and type 2 on the English keyboard: 2 then
> reads é.
> I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
> keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
> My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
> type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
> (not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
> and typing 130 on the right .
> Is there another way on some Windows xp to get é without changing
> into the "French keyboard"?
> I am sure one of you knows the answer.
> Thanking you in advance.
> Urban
> ************************************


This might depend on the application they're using.

I have Word (2002) and it does not allow you to type in é using alt-130.
You have to go through the menu, using Insert -> Symbols.

Although I can use Notepad and most other text editors and type alt-130 to
display é.

Comment at the bottom.


"Don Phillipson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "URBAN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:e49d944f-60f9-4d86-bb5e-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
>> keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
>> My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
>> type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
>> (not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
>> and typing 130 on the right .
>
> Reference books nowadays list these extended ASCII
> codes with four digits, not three. Have your friends tried
> keying Alt 0130 ?
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
>

Urban, our daughter-in-law, Renèe, likes the alternate, i.e., "reverse"
accent mark. Another lady I know uses "é."

I can get "é" either with Alt-130, OR with Alt-0233.

The other accent-mark-e, "è" can be obtained with Alt-138 or Alt-0232 (as I
have done here).

Also to be considered is the particular character set used, special
character sets will yield something quite different.

Ken Bland

Tae Song wrote:
>
> This might depend on the application they're using.
>
> I have Word (2002) and it does not allow you to type in é using alt-130.
> You have to go through the menu, using Insert -> Symbols.
>
> Although I can use Notepad and most other text editors and type alt-130
> to display é.

Have you tried CTRL+'(Apostrophe) followed by e for é in Word?

How about CTRL+`(Accent Grave) followed by e for è in Word?

These are listed Under the "Type international characters" help topic
for Word '97 (Yes - It's old, but works as well as it ever did).

On Windows 2000, pressing the AltGr key and the e gives you é in any text
program.
Don't know if that's the same for XP
Evi

"URBAN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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Hello Knowledgeable Friend,
I want to explain it using ONLY one example. On my Windows xp I can
type "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways. One way is to
get the "French keyboard" and type 2 on the English keyboard: 2 then
reads é.
I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
(not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
and typing 130 on the right .
Is there another way on some Windows xp to get é without changing
into the "French keyboard"?
I am sure one of you knows the answer.
Thanking you in advance.
Urban
************************************

"RobertVA" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Tae Song wrote:
>>
> > This might depend on the application they're using.
>>
>> I have Word (2002) and it does not allow you to type in é using alt-130.
>> You have to go through the menu, using Insert -> Symbols.
>>
>> Although I can use Notepad and most other text editors and type alt-130
>> to display é.
>
> Have you tried CTRL+'(Apostrophe) followed by e for é in Word?
>
> How about CTRL+`(Accent Grave) followed by e for è in Word?
>
> These are listed Under the "Type international characters" help topic for
> Word '97 (Yes - It's old, but works as well as it ever did).


I learned something totally new! It works in Word 2002, too.

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>
> "RobertVA" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Tae Song wrote:
> >>
> > > This might depend on the application they're using.
> >>
> >> I have Word (2002) and it does not allow you to type in é using
alt-130.
> >> You have to go through the menu, using Insert -> Symbols.
> >>
> >> Although I can use Notepad and most other text editors and type alt-130
> >> to display é.
> >
> > Have you tried CTRL+'(Apostrophe) followed by e for é in Word?
> >
> > How about CTRL+`(Accent Grave) followed by e for è in Word?
> >
> > These are listed Under the "Type international characters" help topic
for
> > Word '97 (Yes - It's old, but works as well as it ever did).
>
>
> I learned something totally new! It works in Word 2002, too.
>
> *I rated this post "Useful" in Windows Live Mail (also news reader)

To type accents in nearly all documents containing text, including Notepad,
Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice programs

Holding down the Alt key, type the numbers below on the numbered keypad
(ensure that the Num Lock light is lit up on your keyboard) (I'm not sure
how this works on a laptop which does not have a numbered keypad - I don't
own one)

German

Ä 0196

Ö 0214

Ü 0220



ä 0228

ö 0246

ü 0252

ß 0223



Italian

à 0224

á 0225

è 0232

ò 0242



È 0200



French

ê 0234

For Word, I type the letters unaccented (apart from the é and follow them
with a ` or, when necessary, the ¬ (both on the key left of the 1 on the
keyboard) then I use a macro like the following one when I have finished the
document to find all those letter combinations and replace them with
accented letters:


'***Start of code
Sub GermanAccents()
'Indicate German accents by putting a `
'(left of the 1) after the letter
' this replaces them with real text

Dim MyFind() As String
Dim MyReplace() As String
Dim NoChars As Integer
'number of characters to replace
NoChars = 7
ReDim MyFind(NoChars)
ReDim MyReplace(NoChars)
'Switch off screen refresh to speed macro
Application.ScreenUpdating = False

MyFind(1) = "a`"
MyFind(2) = "u`"
MyFind(3) = "o`"
MyFind(4) = "s`"
MyFind(5) = "A`"
MyFind(6) = "U`"
MyFind(7) = "O`"

MyReplace(1) = ChrW(228)
MyReplace(2) = ChrW(252)
MyReplace(3) = ChrW(246)
MyReplace(4) = ChrW(223)
MyReplace(5) = ChrW(196)
MyReplace(6) = ChrW(220)
MyReplace(7) = ChrW(214)

For a = 1 To NoChars
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = MyFind(a)
.Replacement.Text = MyReplace(a)
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next a
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
'***End of Code

Evi

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:55:12 +0100, "Evi"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


> To type accents in nearly all documents containing text, including Notepad,
> Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice programs
>
> Holding down the Alt key, type the numbers below on the numbered keypad
> (ensure that the Num Lock light is lit up on your keyboard) (I'm not sure
> how this works on a laptop which does not have a numbered keypad - I don't
> own one)
>
> German
>
> Ä 0196
>
> Ö 0214
>
> Ü 0220 ...


Although what you suggest works, of course, here's what I think is a
much better, easier-to-use solution.

I use a little freeware background program called AllChars. This lets
me (in all applications) type many common special characters (many of
these are used in other languages) by pressing the ctrl key followed
by a two character mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"Don Phillipson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "URBAN" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
>> keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
>> My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
>> type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
>> (not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
>> and typing 130 on the right .
>
> Reference books nowadays list these extended ASCII
> codes with four digits, not three. Have your friends tried
> keying Alt 0130 ?
>

Unfortunately Alt+130 and Alt+0130 accesses different character sets (though
there is some overlap, this isn't one of them). Alt+130 gets you a 'é',
Alt+0130 doesn't (though Alt+0233 does)*! What characters you do get
depends on what font is in use. If the font doesn't have 'é' in it, you
don't get one.

* In Times New Roman Font.