How do I get my computer to use the fn key and alt to put interna.

[Honoré Michel]

I recently had my computer restarted and before was able to hold down the fn
key and the alt key while typing a number in order to do international
letters for example é,è,Ô etc.

I have checked everywhere on how to turn this feature on to work in Word as
this seems to be the only place it will not work. ANY HELP NEEDED THANKS!

 

[Jezebel]

The usual method is to use Ctrl- with the accent, then the character. Eg,
ctrl-`, e for è. Which doesn't answer your question, but does, perhaps,
solve your problem.

 

[Honoré Michel]

Hey Jezabel thanks for responding to that. I am not familiar with that
method as in university(ctrl+0233) would give é and on my laptop before used
the fn+alt in order to put the letters through word...it is currently working
through here but in order to type my essay in french in word is where it is
not working..any ideas?

 

[John Doue]

Hey Jezabel thanks for responding to that. I am not familiar with that
method as in university(ctrl+0233) would give é and on my laptop before used
the fn+alt in order to put the letters through word...it is currently working
through here but in order to type my essay in french in word is where it is
not working..any ideas?

:

Working as a free-lance translator into French and using only qwerty
keyboards, I have solved this old problem two ways: first, I have
decided on which shortcuts should produce which character. Since I have
only two hands (as opposed to Windows creator I guess ...) I never use
Ctrl+Alt+whatever combinations. For instance, I have decided that Alt+e
should produce é.

In Word, I have created macros for each of those combinations (in this
case, the macro would be named AltE for instance) and then I have
assigned them to the desired key combinations (here Alt + e). For
programs where use of keyboard shortcuts is not possible or difficult, I
use a memory resident program (sorry, older technology) called Swapkeys
which is loaded with Windows and programmed to use the exact same key
combinations. Therefore, I do not need to unload it when I use Word,
they do not conflict.

For more than very occasional use, I find the standard approach totally
impractical. I have never understand why Windows insists on three-keys
combinations.

Best regards

 

[Peter_A_M (NL)]

In addition to what Jezebel wrote:
I think it might be necessary to install the US-International keyboard for
this method to work. (At least in the Netherlands we also had typewriters
with so-called 'dead' keys: type the accent first and then the letter
underneath.)
By the way: to type " type ctrl-", <space> etc.