How do you write in French on Microsoft Word?

Question

I have a french project due tommorow and it has to be in french do does anybody know how to do this. I can type the word it's just the certain accent marks above letters and under them that I can't do.

Answer 1

When you're typing your answers in French on Microsoft Word, you'll need to use accents on some letters. There are two ways of doing this:

1. Click on the "Insert" drop-down menu at the top of the screen in Word, then click on "Symbol" on the list. This brings up a small window of different accents and symbols. If you choose "(normal text)" in the list of Fonts at the top of the box this will give you a big selection of accented letters - to use one of these just double-click on the letter itself in the grid and it will appear in your answer.

2. A much faster way of adding symbols in Word involves using what are called "shortcut keys" (this is only possible on a PC). This means pressing several keys together plus a letter to produce the right accent. To do this, follow the instructions below:

é Hold down and press the <'> key (the one which also has @ on it).

Then press e


è Hold down and press the <`> key (the one which also has ¬ on it).

Then press e


à Hold down and press the <`> key (the one which also has ¬ on it).

Then press a


ô Hold down and , and press the <^> key (the one which also has 6 on it).
Then press o

Answer 2

alt+130=é
alt+135=ç
alt+138=è
alt+140=î
alt+137=ë
alt+139=ï
alt+150=û
alt+131=â
alt+133=à
alt+136=ê

you have to hold down the "alt" button and put the numbers in

this is the majority if there are any other accents you just experiment with the (alt) button. the french signs are from i think 130-170
hope this helps you out!

Answer 3

ECTACO Partner EF800 - English French Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook or try the Ectaco website for more translator products.

Answer 4

Under TOOL you can choose French as default language, chances are that the corrector will offer you to change the accents by itself.

Answer 5

http://www.studyspanish.com/accents/typing.htm
http://french.about.com/library/bl_faq_accents.htm

These suggest to use the US International Keyboard. You can choose to add a French Keyboard which will change your layout to that of a French keyboard. You will have to learn the layout by experimentation and by searching on google.com for the French layout of the keyboard. I wish you the best on your paper

Answer 6

Change the spellchecker language to French, and use the spiffy texts to use the accents

or type it, then add the accents with pen

(thats what i did)

Answer 7

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269750
(how to type accented international characters in Microsoft Word)

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Answer 8

Just write in french and ignore all the red lines, there is no point changing the language in the software itself.

So there is no problem at all

Answer 9

Type it up and add the marks later???

Answer 10

Have you tried changing the fonts?