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Hello, I am an English guy. I a have a personal project that involves me typing quite a few French paragraphs with an English Microsoft Word documents. I am asking what techniques do you use to input French accents Do you set up your own alt key combinations ? If so, what system do you use? (especially for the accents on the letters a and e) Or do you use the special characters on the number keyv…