Here is a list of French accent characters you can use when typing emails or documents in the French language.
To type French accents with ALT codes, hold down the ALT key, then on the numeric keypad type the three or four digits listed here. When you release the ALT key, the French accent character will appear.
It is easy to type French letters, just try it yourself. Knowing when and where to use these special French accent letters might be a little trickier, that’s where a French teacher like myself might come in handy.
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Another way to type French accents on your laptop or desktop computer is to install the French keyboard, you can find that and the language bar under regional settings in Window control panel.
The language bar allows you to switch between the French and English keyboard easily.
Here is where you start:
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American users might be better off installing the “US-International” keyboard. When you install the French keyboard, it changes the designation of many keys. QWERTY becomes AZERTY. Thus the keycaps don’t line up anymore and it can be very confusing to type.
The US-International Keyboard makes accent keys into “dead keys” which don’t type anything until the following keystroke. If the next keystroke is a character to which an accent can be applied, the accented version is entered. Thus if you want “é”, you type “‘” (apostrophe) then “e”. If you want just the accent, you follow the apostrophe with a space.
US International includes key combinations for all of the major European languages, and is less confusing because all of the keys still type their designated letter. The key marked “A” types “A”, etc.