les accents et MS Word


MS Word and Accents in French

 

In MS Word, you can insert accented characters such as these…

 

« à â é ê è î ô œ ù û ç Ç »

 

You do so by selecting Insert on the tool bar, then Symbol. When the character box appears, select the character you want, then click Insert and Close

 

 

alt a = à

alt s = â 

alt w = è 

alt e = é

alt r = ê 

 

alt i = î 

alt o = ô 

alt p = œ 

alt u = ù 

alt y = û 

 

alt c = ç 

alt x = Ç 

alt g = « 

alt h = » 

 

The tréma accent (¨) is rarely used in French – I just do the insert, symbol routine for these words.