>>>I am aware of all the ALT-### codes for entering accented letters of French alphabet. But they seem to work one minute and don't work another time. I have two keyboard on my PC - US and US -International. I added French keyboard (in Control Panel) but that didn't seem to help.
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>>>So 2 questions:
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>>>1. What should I do in MS Work 2010 to make the ALT - ### to work consistently?
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>>>2. If I enable French keyboard, how do I enter the accented letters and c with cedilla?
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>>>TIA
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>>Do you have the IME active?
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>What is IME?

Input Method Editor -- basically the component in Windows that allows multilingual keyboard input. On several workstations at where I work we've got Asian language extensions loaded in Windows so that we may perform input in various Asian language (on my workstation I've set it up to switch between English and Japanese language, while my coworkers generally have theirs set up for English and Chinese). Depending on the input mode selected, some keys may not operate the same way.