Alt key commands (accented letters)

[John]

Greetings. I am trying to write some text in French in Word. The problem is
that when I use the Alt key commands, the accented characters that come up
are automatically changed from Times New Roman font to Lucida Sans Unicode.
However do I get this change to stop happening? I want the letters to appear
in times New Roman font just like the rest of the test. also, I do not want
to use Character Map or Word's symbol feature to produce these letters as
such would take too much time. Thank you for your assistance.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Alt key commands? The default keyboard shortcuts have CTRL key shortcuts. If
yours have ALT key shortcuts it could be that they are not actually calling
insert symbol but something else that is preformatted. Check the correct
keyboard shortcuts from insert > symbol.

If you have an old Times New Roman font, it may not have the extended
characters with the accents (though this seems less likely) and will
substitute from another font. Check that the characters are present.

When typing other languages it is often simpler to setup a foreign language
keyboard in Windows. You can use the on screen keyboard to display the key
positions until they become second nature.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I suspect John is referring to the Alt+0xxx codes for ASCII characters.
There are more efficient ways to insert accented letters. John, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm