Corpora: Re: Typing accents in Windows/Words (US-kbd)

[Peter K Tan]

At 13.02 20.4.01 +0930, David Powers wrote:
>Rene.Valdes at lhsl.com wrote:
>
>If you can tell me how to type them in Word under Windows on a US
>English keyboard I would appreciate it.
>
You can press <Ctrl>+<'> (that's the apostrophe symbol) followed by a vowel
letter for the rising accent (accent aigu), as in éáíóú

You can press <Ctrl>+ <`> (that's the key left of number one) followed by a
vowel letter for the falling accent (accent grave), as in àèìòù

You can press <Ctrol> + <:> (that's the colon, so you need to press <Shift>
as well) followed by a vowel letter for the diaeresis or umlaut, as in äëïöü

And finally, you can press <Ctrl> + <^> (that's the caret - <Chift>+<6>)
followed by a vowel letter for the circumflex, as in âêîôû

It's worked pretty well for me. 

Cheers,
Peter
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