In this week's Office challenge, I share my favorite shortcut for entering accented characters. You can test your Excel skills with an Excel transposing challenge.
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TechRepublic's Microsoft Office Suite newsletter, delivered every Wednesday, is designed to help your users get the most from Word, Excel, and Access. Automatically sign up today!Last week we asked you to… List one keyboard shortcut for entering an accented character. Using the Insert menu and tab is certainly easy, but there's more than one way. You might find another way more efficient. For instance, to insert é, you can press [Ctrl] + ' + e before you can find t é in the Symbol dialog box! In actual keystrokes, that's
- [Ctrl]
- ' (the apostrophe character)
- e
Keyboard Shortcut |
Example |
[Ctrl]+' | é |
[Ctrl]+` (apostrophe with tilde) | À |
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+~ | ñ |
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+^ | î |
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+: | ë |