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We explain how to type French letters like è, â, and ç with keyboard shortcuts. Hint: It's quite easy.

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We explain how to type French letters like è, â, and ç with keyboard shortcuts. Hint: It's quite easy.

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There are two ways to type French accents.
1. On a non-French keyboard, you can select French keyboard layout from Windows settings.

French keyboard layout

French keyboard layout
12	Ctrl + ` then E	è
-2	Ctrl + ` then A	à
-1	Ctrl + ` then U	ù

French keyboard layout

French keyboard layout
1	Ctrl + ^ then A	â
-2	Ctrl + ^ then E	ê
0	Ctrl + ^ then O	ô

French keyboard layout
2	Ctrl + : then E	ë

Acute accent
0	Alt + 0233	é
4	Alt + 0201	É
0	Alt + 0224	à
3	Alt + 0232	è
4	Alt + 0249	ù
-1	Alt + 0192	À
4	Alt + 0200	È
1	Alt + 0235	ë
1	Alt + 0203	Ë

While above methods are easier for most situations, some may prefer not using keyboard at all for typing French accents. Windows Character Map tool will allow you to copy and paste French letters (and any other letter).

On Windows 10, do the following
Open Start menu and type Language and keyboard, click the "Change Language and Keyboard options".
Note: This will only add a keyboard layout to Windows, it won't change Windows display language.

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Acute accent
Grave accent
Cédille
Circumflex
Umlaut
Alt codes
Using Character map
Windows: How to add keyboard layout

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Program name: Typing French accents Typing French accents (Text editing)

Last update: 4/1/2020 3:40 PM UTC

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