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0290.    French Accents On An English Computer Keyboard

0291.

PC WINDOWS '95 - '98

CHART OF KEYS 

 http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/images/ti/clavier.gif
From the Government of Quebec, Canada,
CPF's copy of the Government of Quebec, Canada French Keyboard layout as the above site has moved without notice of the new address in the past.
http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/ti/clavier.html
Information about the French keyboard layout from the Government of Quebec, Canada.

  http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/viskeyboard.aspx
Microsoft Office version 2000 has the ability to download to its system the
Visual Keyboard Microsoft Office Tool. The above link is to the download for this Microsoft Office tool.
Once installed, to activate the tool, in Windows, click on `Start`, then click on `Programs`, then scroll to
'Microsoft Office Tools', then click on 'Microsoft Visual Keyboard'. When you change the language by clicking on the language key for your keyboard in the Windows task bar (if your system does not have this, see below for a link on how to do this), the language of the Visual Keyboard changes. When you click on the visual key board's shift key, you see what the shift key differences are.
ie. the key board shows:
    - the English ' / '  key has become the French ' é ' key
    - the English single apostrophe key has become the key to press before the letter that needs
      "l'accent grave" like ' è '
    - the English ' { ' key has become the key to press before the letter that needs "l'accent circonflexe" like ' ô '
    - the English ' ] ' key has become the key to press before the letter that needs "l'accent cédille" like ' ç '
    - the English shift and ' } ' key have become the keys to press before the letter that needs
      "l'accent tréma" like ' ë ' (as of April 2002, not shown on visual keyboard)
and if you click on the shift key the keyboard shows:
    - the ' / ' that became ' é ' is now at shift ' 3 '
    - the ' ? ' that was used in ' é ' is now at shift ' 6 '
    - the single apostrophe key that became ' è ' is now at shift ' , '
    - the ' " ' that was used in ' è ' is now at shift ' . '
    - the ' @ ' is now done by pressing the right ' alt ' and the ' 2 ' (as of April 2002, not shown on visual keyboard)

Alternatively, if you would like a chart of the French Keys that includes "l'accent tréma" and "@" (or you do not have Microsoft Office 2000) you can display the following web page on your system and maximize and minimize it as needed:
http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/CPF-FIAL-0291-Fr-Accents-English-Keys-PC-Chart.html
Click on "Windows '95-'98"

For how to add the ability to your system 'to switch your English keyboard from English to French' see:
http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/CPF-FIAL-0290-Fr-Accents-English-Keyboard.html

Stickers, of the French accents, for an English keyboard are available from:

Beaujoie
St. Hubert, Quebec
614-462-2225
800-363-6026

and also from:

 http://www.worldlanguage.com/Products/French/Keyboards/Page1.htm

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