[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":272},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog:2006:office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters":3,"blogMore-Technology":258,"comments-office-shortcuts-for-accented-characters":271},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":238,"commentCount":239,"date":240,"description":12,"excerpt":241,"extension":242,"filenames":243,"hidden":244,"image":243,"meta":245,"minutes":246,"navigation":247,"path":248,"seo":249,"showCategory":243,"stem":250,"tags":251,"updated":243,"url":255,"wordCount":256,"__hash__":257},"content\u002Fblog\u002F2006\u002Foffice-shortcuts-for-accented-characters.md","Office shortcuts for accented characters on Windows",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":234},"minimark",[9,13,16,40,205,221,229],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Many years ago I came across, by accident, a way of entering foreign accented characters into Microsoft Office applications by way of a standard non-accented UK\u002FUS keyboard.",[10,14,15],{},"While this technique is documented in a few places very few people seem to have come across it.",[10,17,18,19,23,24,27,28,30,31,33,34,36,39],{},"Press ",[20,21,22],"kbd",{},"Ctrl"," and a symbol followed by a letter and it will apply this symbol to the letter if it forms a valid accented character. 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