Alt Code Shortcuts for Accented Letters in Windows

European languages like French, German, Spanish, etc. has special accented characters. Frankly, you can’t use standard English keyboard on your Windows based PC  to type these special letters. You can add US international keyboard and use shortcuts to type accented letters, which is an inconvenient way. Other option is to use third-party apps to make the task simple for you. The last and quick option is to use alt code shortcuts on standard keyboard without any additional apps or language keyboard. This should pretty simple on all documents on Windows.

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Alt Code Shortcuts for Accented Letters in Windows

Below is the list of alt code shortcuts for French letters.

• Alt + Code – press and hold one of the alt keys and type the numbers using numeric keyboard.
• Alt + X – type the hex code and press and hold “alt + x” keys to toggle it to a letter. This method will work only on Microsoft Word documents.

Using Character Map

Some of the alt code shortcuts may not work depending on the font you use on the document. Also the shortcut that works on Word document may not work on Excel. You have an alternative way to insert accented letters using Character Map app.

• Type character map in Windows search box and open the app.
• Choose the font you like to use and preview all the characters in the list.
• Select the character you want to insert.
• Click on “Copy” button and then paste the copied character anywhere on your document.

Character Map

• Click on the “Advanced View” check box to view additional options.
• You can search by character set or unicode value to find the required character.

The problem with Character Map app is that you need to copy and paste the character each time.

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