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How to type accents on a QWERTY keyboard?

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minkus -  
 fredev -
Hello,

I have a QWERTY keyboard that prevents me from typing accents in French. Works is useless because the "ctrl + " commands don't work and the special character insertion is very poorly done.
I also don't have the French dictionary...

What should I do?

Thanks for your help.

minkusConfiguration: Windows XP
Microsoft Works

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Liseron
 
The QWERTY keyboard works very well for French and other languages, as well as for programming in C and using the Internet.

To have accents, select in the control panel/regional options/US international keyboard and then "apply".

You then need to type the accent followed by the letter. The acute accent is the apostrophe é = ' + e, ç is ' + c, Ä = " + A, etc...
Remember to put a space after the apostrophe to get the apostrophe...

I have been using a QWERTY keyboard for a long time and I definitely do not want an AZERTY! The QWERTY is much more practical.
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claire
 
Honestly, thank you very much for the tip... I've been looking for months through drivers or programs and nothing works... with your tactic it's much easier... thank you very much.
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R.
 
BE"H
Indeed, your system is by far the best, and I have been using it for 2 years.
And now I can't manage it anymore. I'm configuring XP in US International, and in Word it only lasts for the first accent. After that, for every accent, I have to set the keyboard back to US International. While for 2 years I could keep this keyboard as standard, now it resets immediately (only in Word: I write on Explorer and the accents are perfect there). Does anyone know how to permanently fix Word to US-International?
Thank you.
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