My friends ask. How to type acute accented e (é) on LAPTOPS

[URBAN]

Dear Knowledgeable Friends,
You already let me know that on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is not
obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the right
hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also be
obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. Thank you, fine, I am
grateful.
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than on
top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are unable
to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130, nor by ALT
and 0233.
What is the trick for laptops? PLEASE advise.
Thanking you in advance,
Have a good weekend,
Urban
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[Bruce Chambers]

Dear Knowledgeable Friends,
You already let me know that on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is not
obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the right
hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also be
obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. Thank you, fine, I am
grateful.
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than on
top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are unable
to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130, nor by ALT
and 0233.
What is the trick for laptops? PLEASE advise.
Thanking you in advance,
Have a good weekend,
Urban
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It may depend upon the specifics of each laptop model, but, in general,
the laptop users would need to enable NumLock and then use the numerals
that are on the letter keys, not those across the top of the keyboard.
Advise your friend to consult their laptops' manuals for using the ASCII
character set.


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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Dear Knowledgeable Friends,
You already let me know that on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is not
obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the right
hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also be
obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. Thank you, fine, I am
grateful.
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than on
top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are unable
to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130, nor by ALT
and 0233.
What is the trick for laptops? PLEASE advise.

There's more than one way to do this sort of thing, whether on a
desktop or a laptop. The problem with typing a four-digit number while
depressing the Alt key is that such combinations are hard to remember.

So I recommend that you do what I do. I use a little freeware
background program called AllChars. This lets me 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 ". And for é, it's e and '.

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/

 

[VanguardLH]

... on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is not
obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the right
hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also be
obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. ...
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than on
top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are unable
to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130, nor by ALT
and 0233.

Since the numpad is mixed into their keypad area, they will have to
first switch into the numpad mode so they can hit Alt plus whatever is
the numbers. They will have to consult the manual for their laptop to
find out how to switch into numpad mode.

If that doesn't work, have them use the Character Map program. If it
isn't installed, use Add/Remove Programs, click Add/Remove Windows
Components, and select to include the Character Map program.

 

[Big_Al]

URBAN said this on 7/3/2009 4:19 PM:

Dear Knowledgeable Friends,
You already let me know that on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is not
obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the right
hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also be
obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. Thank you, fine, I am
grateful.
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than on
top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are unable
to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130, nor by ALT
and 0233.
What is the trick for laptops? PLEASE advise.
Thanking you in advance,
Have a good weekend,
Urban
****************************************************

And if all the other suggestions fail, use the "character map". Copy
the appropriate character to the clipboard and then paste into your
application. It's awkward, but works.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

URBAN said this on 7/3/2009 4:19 PM:

Dear Knowledgeable Friends,
You already let me know that on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is not
obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the right
hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also be
obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. Thank you, fine, I am
grateful.
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than on
top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are unable
to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130, nor by ALT
and 0233.
What is the trick for laptops? PLEASE advise.
Thanking you in advance,
Have a good weekend,
Urban
****************************************************

And if all the other suggestions fail, use the "character map". Copy
the appropriate character to the clipboard and then paste into your
application. It's awkward, but works.

Yes it works, but it's *far* more awkward than what I suggested. I
*strongly* recommend against it.

 

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If I press ctrl along with single quote, single backquote, or semicolon,
and then press a vowel, I can get the accented vowels or umlaut vowels.
For example, I press ctrl-' and then e to get é
Pressing ctrl-^ (ctrl+shift+6) then the vowels gets me the ^ above the
vowel. Similar things can be done with ctrl-~ (ctrl+shift+`) and a or o

áéíóúàèìòùäëïöüâêîôûãõ

This only works in some programs, not everywhere.

URBAN said this on 7/3/2009 4:19 PM:

Dear Knowledgeable Friends,
You already let me know that on a PC (if acute accented e[=é] is
not obtained by holding ALT and typing 130 using numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard) , acute accented e[=é] can also
be obtained by holding ALT and typing 0233. Thank you, fine, I am
grateful.
Now some friends of mine have laptops and instead of numbers on the
right hand side of the keyboard, they have numbers elsewhere than
on top of the keyboard, namely mixed up with letters. But they are
unable to get the acute accented e [=é] neither via ALT and 130,
nor by ALT and 0233.
What is the trick for laptops? PLEASE advise.
Thanking you in advance,
Have a good weekend,
Urban
****************************************************

And if all the other suggestions fail, use the "character map".
Copy the appropriate character to the clipboard and then paste into
your application. It's awkward, but works.

Yes it works, but it's *far* more awkward than what I suggested. I
*strongly* recommend against it.