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Typing French accents keyboard shortcuts (filtered)
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First published at 8/12/2019 on
https://defkey.com/typing-french-accents-shortcuts




Note
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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.



Acute accent
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French keyboard layout:

Ctrl + \ then E         
Shift + é               


Grave accent
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French keyboard layout:

Ctrl + ` then E         è
Ctrl + ` then A         à
Ctrl + ` then U         ù
AltGr + , then E        
AltGr + , then A        


Cédille
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French keyboard layout:



Circumflex
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French keyboard layout:

Ctrl + ^ then A         â
Ctrl + ^ then E         ê
Ctrl + ^ then O         ô


Umlaut
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French keyboard layout:

Ctrl + : then E         ë


Alt codes
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Acute accent:

Alt + 0233              é
Alt + 0201              É
Alt + 0224              à
Alt + 0232              è
Alt + 0249              ù
Alt + 0192              À
Alt + 0200              È
Alt + 0235              ë
Alt + 0203              Ë


Using Character map
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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).





Windows: How to add keyboard layout
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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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