Bonjour, garçon! Here ees my résumé!
I mean, if you're going to act cosmopolitan... at least look cosmopolitan!
Hold down the Alt key, punch in a few numbers on the keyboard, release the Alt key et voilà! Zee accent mark pops onto zee screen like zee magic!
(Now how do I get reed of thees outràgeous accént?!)
For more on easily inserting foreign letters with accent marks, and professional spacing bars — like these — please...
Okay, this is slick and easy.
Go to Start Menu, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, 'Character Map':
Flip the drop-down menu at the top to 'Arial'.
Find your custom character. If you want to copy it to memory and use Ctrl-V to punch it in later on, double-click on it and you should see it appear in the box.
To use the keyboard, note the "Alt" numbers in the lower-right. In this case, you hold down either Alt key, punch in 0233 in the numeric keypad over to the right, then release the Alt key. The é character will pop right up on the screen. (which is how I did that one right there) Note that it won't work with the regular number keys, just the ones on the numeric keypad.
The only hitch, as you see, is that they're composed of four numbers, so they're a little hard to keep memorized over time if you don't use them very often. The only two I know by heart are the é con accénto and 0151 for the horizontal — bar. You can always scribble them down on a post-it and stick it somewhere handy.
If you were typing text in a word processing program or a graphics program like Photoshop, and wanted to include a font from a different fontset, like 'Symbol', you'd first open Character Map and set the drop-down menu to 'Symbol', then find your custom font and either copy it to memory or remember the four ALT numbers, then swing around to the program, set the fonts to 'Symbol' and punch it in.
That should do ya!
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