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How To Get Those Accent Marks Into Your Correspondence
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Q. I have international clientele and when I correspond with them, I must use letters, accents and sometimes even punctuation marks that are not on my computer keyboard. Any suggestion on how I can accomplish this?
A. If you use foreign characters only occasionally, I can show you how to produce them with your regular keyboard. But if your correspondence is heavy, you may want to buy a special foreign-language keyboard.
In the meantime the box at right shows the keystroke shortcuts that will produce the most popular foreign characters.
| Ctrl+` (accent grave, which is above the Tab key) | , , , , , , , , , |
| Ctrl+’ (apostrophe) | , , , , , y, , , , , , Y |
| Ctrl+Shift+^ (caret) | , , , , , , , , , |
| Ctrl+Shift+~ (tilde) | , , , , , |
| Ctrl+Shift+: (colon) | , , , , , , , , , , , Ÿ |
| Ctrl+Shift+@, a or A | , |
| Ctrl+Shift+&, a or A | , |
| Ctrl+Shift+&, o or O | œ, Œ |
| Ctrl+, (comma), c or C | , |
| Ctrl+’ (apostrophe), d or D | , D |
| Ctrl+/, o or O | , |
| Alt+Ctrl+Shift+? | |
| Alt+Ctrl+Shift+! | |
| Ctrl+Shift+&, s |
