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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / February 2004French accented words
When typing in English text, how do I add an acute, grave or circumflex accent to a word (eg; the French word 'touche' requires an acute accent above the 'e')? Do I need a special keyboard? No special keyboard required, all you need is the knowledge of the keyboard combination required to type from the extended character set. Insert > symbol will reveal the keyboard shortcuts. If you need to use touch? regularly, then save it as an autocorrect for touche.  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > When typing in English text, how do I add an acute, grave > or circumflex accent to a word (eg; the French > word 'touche' requires an acute accent above the 'e')? > Do I need a special keyboard? See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > When typing in English text, how do I add an acute, grave > or circumflex accent to a word (eg; the French > word 'touche' requires an acute accent above the 'e')? > Do I need a special keyboard? I wrote a nifty little macro (IVC Accents for the Microsoft Office Suite) for the French and Spanish professors at the college that I work for. It will work in just about all Microsoft products. The best thing about IVC Accents is that the typist doesn't have to take their fingers out of the typing position, and they don't have to remember the alt+xxx or ctrl+alt+x combinations. I think if you try IVC Accents you will be more than happy to pay the price for it...because it is free! Click here for IVC Accents http://tinyurl.com/2mrsl C. Michael This is not necessary in Word, which has built-in keyboard shortcuts for accented letters. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I wrote a nifty little macro (IVC Accents for the Microsoft Office > Suite) for the French and Spanish professors at the college that I work [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message296080.html Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: > This is not necessary in Word, which has built-in keyboard shortcut > for accented letters.> *Of course it isn't necessary*; however, it does make typing accent easier and faster by not having to take your fingers out of the typin position. You also don't have to remember all the alt or crt combinations. You only need to remember "/", "<", ">", and ".". Yo don't need shortcuts with IVC Accents! Example: /u. would give you ?, /?/ would give you ? Go ahead...be brave, try it, and learn something new today. I' confident that once you try it you will see the advantages of IV Accents. I understand that you are advocating shortcuts, *IVC Accent just extends capabilities of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access Outlook, etc. without the clunky shortcuts*. Click here for IVC Accents www.brawleywebdesign.com/ComputerRoomPages/IVCaccents.shtm C. Michae This is absolute nonsense! How does typing Ctrl or Alt "take your fingers out of the typing position"? Those of use who type all day for a living are quite accustomed to using the *entire* keyboard. And why would we want to have to memorize senseless shortcuts (which might otherwise occur in running text) when there are already shortcuts built in. Moreover, if we wanted to use these shortcuts, why would we not merely create AutoCorrect entries for them instead of potentially corrupting or destabilizing Word with one more add-in? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: > > This is not necessary in Word, which has built-in keyboard shortcuts [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message296080.html You're right Suzanne, this is nonsense. You obviously do not want to learn anything new or find an easier way to do something. If you had looked at IVC Accents you would have found out that the macro does in fact utilize the autocorrect function! There is no -corrupting or destabilizing-. What IVC Accents does, by using the macro function, is exactly what the macro function is there for. You are not the only person to spend the day at a keyboard! Holding down the crtl+alt+e is not all that easy, especially for a student, or non-expert typist. To say nothing about trying to remember all the combinations. At each computer station in my lab at Imperial Valley College I have list of your keystrokes and the keystrokes for IVC Accents. Guess which ones the most of the students use. -It's not your shortcuts-. In the future, I would advise you to not tell people that something isn't necessary when you don't know the facts. The least you should do is not say anything at all until you do know those facts. You should try IVC Accents before you make a judgement and tell people that it isn't necessary. It's nice that you have an MVP award, and I enjoyed reading your short bio which says: Specialties: General Word use through user interface (no VBA) I work with MS Office every day (for the last 9 years) tutoring students and professors, so I guess that makes me an expert too. I also program in COBOL, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and a few others. Let people decide on their own what is necessary when somebody makes a suggestion that they try something new. Your way is not the only way, and may not be the best way. **************************** Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: > [B]This is absolute nonsense! How does typing Ctrl or Alt "take your > fingers [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > newsgroup so > all may benefit. C. Michael The knowledge and effort you demonstrated by creating an add-in is certainly impressive, and if you were willing to put in the time and effort helping others on the newsgroups, no doubt MS would reward you with MVP status as well. May I ask you to consider one possibility, however? Perhaps, especially when teaching beginners, it would be more useful for them to learn a way of inserting accents that they can take to all computers and all versions of Word, and often even other programs? Even if this is not the easiest way, it may be the most efficient and the most helpful for the students in the long run, especially because retraining the fingers is very difficult. DM > You're right Suzanne, this is nonsense. You obviously do not want to > learn anything new or find an easier way to do something. If you had [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message296080.html Dayo Mitchell wrote:May I ask you to consider one > possibility, however? Thank you for the for your praise. As always the choice is up to the student (or user). We do not force the students to use IVC Accents we just offer it as an alternative. If they decide to use IVC Accents, it is available, via download, so they can install the macro on their home computer. IVC Accents was not intended for the globe trotting Word user. Even so, it does fit on a 3 1/2" floppy and can be installed on grandma's computer in Poedunck,Texas when your go to visit her (assuming you don't take your laptop, which has IVC Accents installed). This thread did get a little out of hand, and I do apologize for my part in it. IVC Accents was a lot of work. We worked on finding the easiest to remember keystrokes while at the same time trying to have minimal finger movement. The whole process took about two months, and after many trials we arrived at the final product. Suzanne made me a little mad when she just discounted it as -corrupting or destabilizing- without even looking at it, or considering that it may be a good alternative for others. I have been using Word for a long time and I am constantly learning new "stuff". Yes I do still get stumped once in a while, but when I do I pick up my copy of Microsoft Office XP Inside and Out. It's published by Microsoft Press and usually sends me in the right direction. Still...sometimes it helps to think outside the box! C. Michael |
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