tegwini Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Is there anyone out there who can recommend an easy to use/download attachment 'thingy' for French accents ?Someone kindly provided one a while back, but as I have changed my lap top I seem to have 'lost ' it. I have downloaded Avisoft, which is similar, but it puts a euro symbol instead of the acute 'e' accent - as did the previous one. And for some reason my lap top's insert symbol is giving only mathetical symbols and I can't seem to change that- and it was a right pain when it did give French symbols.Please Help !!!Many thanks Tegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 The thingie you are thinking of may have been Lexibar (link here)The easy way to get an e acute is to press e while holding down the AltGr key (like this - é). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegwini Posted September 6, 2009 Author Share Posted September 6, 2009 Many thanks Will!Wonderful service too. I have managed to download it & hopefully it will be better than the last one.Hope all's well with you & the pooch.RegardsTegwini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastu Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Yes, thank you so much for the lexibar link Will - so much easier (and faster) than toggling between the English and French keyboards which is what I've been doing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Don't forget that if you have the French spell check add-in in Firefox you can type in something like "J'ai deja tape ca en francais sans probleme "and it will give you "J'ai déjà tape ça en français sans problème " just by clicking on the words underlined in red.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairyNuff Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 A simple way I've found to do this on a lap-top with no numeric pad, instead of toggling between functions is this:If you're in 'Word' go to Tools, then Language, then Select language, you can select French as a second language, provided you can find it on the list of languages on your coputer. After that, when you're typing a document, after a few words it detects than you're typing in French and will underline in red the words that it thinks are wrong. Correct it, and Bob's your uncle! [geek] If it's for a post, copy and paste into your post, easy-peasy!FairyNuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernie Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 [quote user="tegwini"]Is there anyone out there who can recommend an easy to use/download attachment 'thingy' for French accents ?Someone kindly provided one a while back, but as I have changed my lap top I seem to have 'lost ' it. I have downloaded Avisoft, which is similar, but it puts a euro symbol instead of the acute 'e' accent - as did the previous one.And for some reason my lap top's insert symbol is giving only mathetical symbols and I can't seem to change that- and it was a right pain when it did give French symbols.Please Help !!!Many thanks Tegwini[/quote]Hi Will, Thanks for the Lexibar link, very useful and better it seems than Avisoft. I used to know how to cure the inadvertent € symbol, but forgot now. Hi Teggs ! Try this on your Insert - Symbol box : Click the down arrow in the font box and select (normal text). It has most of the usual requirements. Cheers from Ernie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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