Help my friends.How to get "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways?

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Hello Knowledgeable Friend,
I want to explain it using ONLY one example. On my Windows xp I can
type "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways. One way is to
get the "French keyboard" and type 2 on the English keyboard: 2 then
reads é.
I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
(not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
and typing 130 on the right .
Is there another way on some Windows xp to get é without changing
into the "French keyboard"?
I am sure one of you knows the answer.
Thanking you in advance.
Urban
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I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
(not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
and typing 130 on the right .
Click to expand...

Reference books nowadays list these extended ASCII
codes with four digits, not three. Have your friends tried
keying Alt 0130 ?
 
URBAN said:
Hello Knowledgeable Friend,
I want to explain it using ONLY one example. On my Windows xp I can
type "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways. One way is to
get the "French keyboard" and type 2 on the English keyboard: 2 then
reads é.
I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
(not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
and typing 130 on the right .
Is there another way on some Windows xp to get é without changing
into the "French keyboard"?
I am sure one of you knows the answer.
Thanking you in advance.
Urban
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This might depend on the application they're using.

I have Word (2002) and it does not allow you to type in é using alt-130.
You have to go through the menu, using Insert -> Symbols.

Although I can use Notepad and most other text editors and type alt-130 to
display é.
 
Comment at the bottom.


Don Phillipson said:
Reference books nowadays list these extended ASCII
codes with four digits, not three. Have your friends tried
keying Alt 0130 ?
Click to expand...

Urban, our daughter-in-law, Renèe, likes the alternate, i.e., "reverse"
accent mark. Another lady I know uses "é."

I can get "é" either with Alt-130, OR with Alt-0233.

The other accent-mark-e, "è" can be obtained with Alt-138 or Alt-0232 (as I
have done here).

Also to be considered is the particular character set used, special
character sets will yield something quite different.

Ken Bland
 
Tae said:
This might depend on the application they're using.

I have Word (2002) and it does not allow you to type in é using alt-130.
You have to go through the menu, using Insert -> Symbols.

Although I can use Notepad and most other text editors and type alt-130
to display é.
Click to expand...

Have you tried CTRL+'(Apostrophe) followed by e for é in Word?

How about CTRL+`(Accent Grave) followed by e for è in Word?

These are listed Under the "Type international characters" help topic
for Word '97 (Yes - It's old, but works as well as it ever did).
 
On Windows 2000, pressing the AltGr key and the e gives you é in any text
program.
Don't know if that's the same for XP
Evi

Hello Knowledgeable Friend,
I want to explain it using ONLY one example. On my Windows xp I can
type "é" (e with acute accent ) in 2 different ways. One way is to
get the "French keyboard" and type 2 on the English keyboard: 2 then
reads é.
I can also hold down my left Alt and type 130 on the right number
keys.It also gives é without going to the "French keyboard"
My question is . Two of my friends can get the "French keyboard" and
type 2 to get é , BUT although theirs is also Windows xp with tower
(not laptop) like mine they can't get é holding down the left Alt
and typing 130 on the right .
Is there another way on some Windows xp to get é without changing
into the "French keyboard"?
I am sure one of you knows the answer.
Thanking you in advance.
Urban
************************************
 
RobertVA said:
Have you tried CTRL+'(Apostrophe) followed by e for é in Word?

How about CTRL+`(Accent Grave) followed by e for è in Word?

These are listed Under the "Type international characters" help topic for
Word '97 (Yes - It's old, but works as well as it ever did).
Click to expand...


I learned something totally new! It works in Word 2002, too.

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Tae Song said:
I learned something totally new! It works in Word 2002, too.

*I rated this post "Useful" in Windows Live Mail (also news reader)
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To type accents in nearly all documents containing text, including Notepad,
Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice programs

Holding down the Alt key, type the numbers below on the numbered keypad
(ensure that the Num Lock light is lit up on your keyboard) (I'm not sure
how this works on a laptop which does not have a numbered keypad - I don't
own one)

German

Ä 0196

Ö 0214

Ü 0220



ä 0228

ö 0246

ü 0252

ß 0223



Italian

à 0224

á 0225

è 0232

ò 0242



È 0200



French

ê 0234

For Word, I type the letters unaccented (apart from the é and follow them
with a ` or, when necessary, the ¬ (both on the key left of the 1 on the
keyboard) then I use a macro like the following one when I have finished the
document to find all those letter combinations and replace them with
accented letters:


'***Start of code
Sub GermanAccents()
'Indicate German accents by putting a `
'(left of the 1) after the letter
' this replaces them with real text

Dim MyFind() As String
Dim MyReplace() As String
Dim NoChars As Integer
'number of characters to replace
NoChars = 7
ReDim MyFind(NoChars)
ReDim MyReplace(NoChars)
'Switch off screen refresh to speed macro
Application.ScreenUpdating = False

MyFind(1) = "a`"
MyFind(2) = "u`"
MyFind(3) = "o`"
MyFind(4) = "s`"
MyFind(5) = "A`"
MyFind(6) = "U`"
MyFind(7) = "O`"

MyReplace(1) = ChrW(228)
MyReplace(2) = ChrW(252)
MyReplace(3) = ChrW(246)
MyReplace(4) = ChrW(223)
MyReplace(5) = ChrW(196)
MyReplace(6) = ChrW(220)
MyReplace(7) = ChrW(214)

For a = 1 To NoChars
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = MyFind(a)
.Replacement.Text = MyReplace(a)
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next a
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
'***End of Code

Evi
 
To type accents in nearly all documents containing text, including Notepad,
Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice programs

Holding down the Alt key, type the numbers below on the numbered keypad
(ensure that the Num Lock light is lit up on your keyboard) (I'm not sure
how this works on a laptop which does not have a numbered keypad - I don't
own one)

German

Ä 0196

Ö 0214

Ü 0220 ...
Click to expand...


Although what you suggest works, of course, here's what I think is a
much better, easier-to-use solution.

I use a little freeware background program called AllChars. This lets
me (in all applications) type many common special characters (many of
these are used in other languages) by pressing the ctrl key followed
by a two character mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
 
Don Phillipson said:
Reference books nowadays list these extended ASCII
codes with four digits, not three. Have your friends tried
keying Alt 0130 ?
Click to expand...

Unfortunately Alt+130 and Alt+0130 accesses different character sets (though
there is some overlap, this isn't one of them). Alt+130 gets you a 'é',
Alt+0130 doesn't (though Alt+0233 does)*! What characters you do get
depends on what font is in use. If the font doesn't have 'é' in it, you
don't get one.

* In Times New Roman Font.
 
Evi said:
To type accents in nearly all documents containing text, including Notepad,
Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice programs

Holding down the Alt key, type the numbers below on the numbered keypad
(ensure that the Num Lock light is lit up on your keyboard) (I'm not sure
how this works on a laptop which does not have a numbered keypad - I don't
own one)
Click to expand...

[..snip..]

Usually a laptop has a fn or function key on the bottom row of keys (not
to be confused with the F-keys across the top) and it's usually in a
contrasting color from the regular keys. You'd also notice that some of
the regular keys have numbers printed in the same contrasting color of
the fn key, and that's the numeric keypad. I hardly ever use it as it's
a PITA to use, but by holding down ALT then the fn key and typing mj9o
(0196) prints this Ä when the keys are released.
 
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