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

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
****************************************************

date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:19:16 -0700 (PDT)   author:   URBAN

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

URBAN wrote:
> 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
> ****************************************************


	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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date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:55:16 -0600   author:   Bruce Chambers bchambers@cable0ne.n3t

Re: My friends ask. How to type acute accented e (?) on LAPTOPS   

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:19:16 -0700 (PDT), URBAN
 wrote:

> 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/ 

-- 
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:23:30 -0700   author:   Ken Blake, MVP in

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

URBAN wrote:

> ... 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.

date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:33:24 -0500   author:   VanguardLH

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

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.

date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:38:18 -0400   author:   Big_Al

Re: My friends ask. How to type acute accented e (?) on LAPTOPS   

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:38:18 -0400, Big_Al  wrote:

> 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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date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:26:56 -0700   author:   Ken Blake, MVP in

Re: My friends ask. How to type acute accented e (?) on LAPTOPS   

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.


"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in
news:nc8t4552tiiuq49istudb7k69h0vjuppjj@4ax.com: 

> On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:38:18 -0400, Big_Al  wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
>

date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:46 -0700   author:   blank