The shortcuts have been there for a long time and the main four are quite logical. Same with fiance becoming fiancé ShortcutsĬommon accents have shortcuts in Office generally (Word and Outlook which uses Word as its email editor). Type cafe and Office will change it to café In English language versions of Office you’ll probably see some of these: Sometimes you don’t have to do anything! Office may add some accented characters for you automatically using the in-built AutoCorrect list. This ensures you get it right and saves having to work out the keyboard shortcuts to make an accent letter. The real easy way, especially with names, is to copy the word (with accented characters) from some source document or incoming email. It’s good to get a name or word exactly right, if only as a courtesy to the reader.
Office and Windows let you enter almost any character, if you know the magic spell. The keyboards don’t show accented letters and it’s not obvious how to type them. Typing accented letters can be a chore and a mystery, especially for those of us unaccustomed to languages with the ‘extra’ letters. Type accented characters accent, grave, circumflex, tilde, umlaut, dieresis or cedilla in Microsoft Word and Outlook when they aren’t on the keyboard such as á ã à ä Ç ç ē é ê è ë â ê î ô û and many more.
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