Comments on: Office shortcuts for accented characters on Windows http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters A .NET developer in Redmond Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:08:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jocelyne http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters#comment-10833 Jocelyne Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:47:45 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters.aspx#comment-10833 Thanks a lot for this tip. I was trying desperately to find how to write accents with US keyboard and Parallels Desktop or Bootcamp. It works perfectly. Thanks a lot for this tip. I was trying desperately to find how to write accents with US keyboard and Parallels Desktop or Bootcamp.
It works perfectly.

]]> By: Damien Guard http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters#comment-1640 Damien Guard Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:33:07 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters.aspx#comment-1640 I've just tried the ctrl+modifier with Notepad using Lucida Unicode and the United States - International keymaps and the United Kingdom - Extended ones with no joy.<br /><br />I know there are all sorts of codes mapped to ALT-GR (the same as CTRL-ALT) however they are a little limited and tricky to remember - e.g. ALT-GR p for ö and it doesn't even work in Firefox.<br /><br />[)amien I’ve just tried the ctrl+modifier with Notepad using Lucida Unicode and the United States – International keymaps and the United Kingdom – Extended ones with no joy.

I know there are all sorts of codes mapped to ALT-GR (the same as CTRL-ALT) however they are a little limited and tricky to remember – e.g. ALT-GR p for ö and it doesn’t even work in Firefox.

[)amien

]]> By: Steve http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters#comment-1639 Steve Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:50:18 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/10/10/office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters.aspx#comment-1639 This isn't limited to Office - if you install the 'International' version of your keyboard driver you get the exact same shortcuts in every application. The acute accent versions are available in even the basic keyboard driver like CTRL-ALT-e for example for é. This isn’t limited to Office – if you install the ‘International’ version of your keyboard driver you get the exact same shortcuts in every application. The acute accent versions are available in even the basic keyboard driver like CTRL-ALT-e for example for é.

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