How do I type french symbols? ie: accents

[Dawnpierre]

I need to know how to type the backwards and forwards accent...as well as the
^ above a letter for a document that I am typing in French. I know that you
use ALT and then a number. There should be a list somewhere...but I can't
locate it.

 

[Chuck Davis]

Try this: http://www.lookuptables.com/

 

[Chuck Davis]

You can also select the Arial Unicode MS font. Choose Symbols from the
Insert menu and scroll to the character that you want.

 

[Jezebel]

Most of them are CTRL+ the nearest symbol, then the character. Grave accent
is ctrl-left quote, circumflex is ctrl-shift-6, cedilla is control-comma,
etc. You can also get there -- and do the wierd ones -- through Insert >
Symbol, select (normal text) as the font.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is way overkill. All the characters needed to type in French are
available in all common Unicode fonts (indeed, even in the old-fashioned
ASCII ones).