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How to Type French Accents

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Typing French Accents - Apple: Special character pallet
Opening the special character pallet to type accents on an Apple:
  1. Click edit in the menubar
  2. Click Special characters
  3. Select Roman from the View pulldown menu
  4. Select the Accented Latin character pallet
  5. Keep the pallet open for use in any application
Using the pallet:
  1. Place your cursor at the point in the document where you want an accented character
  2. Click the desired accented character in the pallet
  3. Click Insert at the bottom of the pallet

Please note that I don't use an Apple and that these instructions were provided to me by Apple users. If there are mistakes, please let me know.

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