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meyestone
Oct 04, 2023Copper Contributor
Some accent shortcut keys not working in Word (but one does!)
Hi, I got an older laptop at work (not crazy old, but used by others) and in Word (Microsoft 365 Apps for Business) two of the three shortcut keys I regularly use to type accented characters don't wo...
meyestone
Oct 05, 2023Copper Contributor
Stefan_Blom Thanks, but that would mean I'd need to invent a shortcut key for every accented character! I just want the "normal" Ctrl+', [letter], or Chrt-Shift-^, [letter] to work, the way that Ctrl-`, [letter] works. This has worked on every other Word installation I've ever used!
Stefan_Blom
Oct 06, 2023MVP
Thanks for the update. I see your point.
I would look into keyboard settings once more, and the regional settings in Windows. Do you see a possible explanation there?
It is maybe a long shot, but you could try a different (physical) keyboard.