How to Type French Accents
Activate the International keyboard in Windows., Click the keyboard icon now available from your taskbar and select the United States-International keyboard. , Launch the application in which you need to type French accented letters, like a word...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Activate the International keyboard in Windows.
The Control Panel, available from the Start menu, houses the Regional and Language Options.
Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, then click the Change Keyboards button.
The United States-International keyboard is available under the English (United States) entry, and will provide what you need.
Choose this keyboard, click the OK button, and then close all associated windows. -
Step 2: Click the keyboard icon now available from your taskbar and select the United States-International keyboard.
, The international keyboard alters how the colon, semi-colon, apostrophe, quotation mark and tilde keys work. , An accent aigu is only used over a capital or lowercase "e" to alter the sound.
Type an "e accent aigu" by pressing the apostrophe key and then the "e" key.
It will present the "�" character.
An accent grave is used over the a, e and u vowels in order to change the meaning of a word.
Press the tilde (~) key and then press the vowel you want accented.
Either the French character "�," "a" or "�" will appear.
The accent circonflexe can be used over any of the 5 vowels.
Press Shift + 6, then the vowel in question.
For example, an a accent circonflexe will appear as "�." The c�dille is used under a "c" before the vowels "a," "o" and "u" to facilitate a French character with a soft "C" sound.
Press the apostrophe key followed by the "c" key to type a "�." The tr�ma, known as an umlaut in German, is typed by pressing the quotation mark key (Shift + semi-colon) before the accented vowel.
The French character tr�ma is used only over the "e," "i" and "u" characters. , -
Step 3: Launch the application in which you need to type French accented letters
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Step 4: like a word processing program or a web browser.
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Step 5: Identify the accented character you need to type.
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Step 6: Type an apostrophe
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Step 7: semi-colon or quotation mark by pressing the key for that punctuation and then pressing the space bar.
Detailed Guide
The Control Panel, available from the Start menu, houses the Regional and Language Options.
Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, then click the Change Keyboards button.
The United States-International keyboard is available under the English (United States) entry, and will provide what you need.
Choose this keyboard, click the OK button, and then close all associated windows.
, The international keyboard alters how the colon, semi-colon, apostrophe, quotation mark and tilde keys work. , An accent aigu is only used over a capital or lowercase "e" to alter the sound.
Type an "e accent aigu" by pressing the apostrophe key and then the "e" key.
It will present the "�" character.
An accent grave is used over the a, e and u vowels in order to change the meaning of a word.
Press the tilde (~) key and then press the vowel you want accented.
Either the French character "�," "a" or "�" will appear.
The accent circonflexe can be used over any of the 5 vowels.
Press Shift + 6, then the vowel in question.
For example, an a accent circonflexe will appear as "�." The c�dille is used under a "c" before the vowels "a," "o" and "u" to facilitate a French character with a soft "C" sound.
Press the apostrophe key followed by the "c" key to type a "�." The tr�ma, known as an umlaut in German, is typed by pressing the quotation mark key (Shift + semi-colon) before the accented vowel.
The French character tr�ma is used only over the "e," "i" and "u" characters. ,
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