French accent marks with English keyboard

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Please help me figure out how to write in French without
changing the keyboard layout. I am able to do it in MS
Word, but not in Excel or AOL. In Word all I have to do
is use the "ctrl" and hit the accent I want, ex: ctrl + '
+ e makes the accent aigu over the e.
Thanks!
 
dianne said:
Please help me figure out how to write in French without
changing the keyboard layout. I am able to do it in MS
Word, but not in Excel or AOL. In Word all I have to do
is use the "ctrl" and hit the accent I want, ex: ctrl + '
+ e makes the accent aigu over the e.
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I don't know about AOL but you're right, it doesn't work in Excel. I never
noticed that before. Short of switching between English and French
keyboards, I don't think there's a lot you can do because Excel uses a lot
of those control codes for its own purposes. One possibility is to use the
ALT+nnn keypad trick, which can be really cumbersome if you do a lot of
typing of accented characters.

You might try asking this question in one of the Office or Excel groups and
see what the people there can suggest.
 
-----Original Message-----
Please help me figure out how to write in French without
changing the keyboard layout. I am able to do it in MS
Word, but not in Excel or AOL. In Word all I have to do
is use the "ctrl" and hit the accent I want, ex: ctrl + '
+ e makes the accent aigu over the e.
Thanks!
.
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ALT+130 on numeric keypad
 
dianne said:
Please help me figure out how to write in French without
changing the keyboard layout. I am able to do it in MS
Word, but not in Excel or AOL. In Word all I have to do
is use the "ctrl" and hit the accent I want, ex: ctrl + '
+ e makes the accent aigu over the e.
Thanks!
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I can never remember special keys, although use them if you can remember
them More often I use the Character Map application, provided on the
menu: Start | Accessories | System Tools | Charactar map (or run
"charmap.exe")

See the "help" for this program to see how to use.
 
Is there a way to do it in Outlook Express 6? That would be useful
to me.
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You, and the OP, may be interested in a little freeware program I
use, called AllChars. It runs in the background and works with
all programs, letting you easily create many special characters
by pressing Ctrl, followed by a two-key mnemonic. For example, to
get é, I press Ctrl e '

www.allchars.zwolnet.com

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Ken Blake
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