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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 26 June 22 02:14 BST (UK) »
According to this very long comprehensive list https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/alt-codes-special-characters-keyboard-symbols-windows-list/ to get the accent on the e of née you hold down the alt key while entering the numbers 0233, then release the alt key.

I’m using an iPad so it’s different for me, but I believe on a regular pc type keyboard you select the numbers on the right of the keyboard rather than the ones along the top row.

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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 26 June 22 09:02 BST (UK) »
I have never done this before but I got it to work! AltGr is to the right of the space bar at the bottom. I tried pressing together with the letter but it didn't work but when I held down AltGr first and kept it held down while I pressed a or e, it worked.

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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 26 June 22 09:51 BST (UK) »
... when I held down AltGr first and kept it held down while I pressed a or e, it worked.
It's a new one on me too.  A quick experiment shows that AltGr will add an acute accent to any vowel (not Y) in lower or upper case.  Useful, but a bit limited.  The old-fashioned Alt-key numbers can create a whole range of special characters.
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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 26 June 22 09:54 BST (UK) »
I’m using an iPad so it’s different for me, but I believe on a regular pc type keyboard you select the numbers on the right of the keyboard rather than the ones along the top row.
Correct - you have to use the numeric keypad while holding down the Alt key.
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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 26 June 22 13:01 BST (UK) »
If all else fails, there's always the Character Map. That has everything  :D
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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 26 June 22 21:49 BST (UK) »
I have had snip of this table of ASCII characters saved on desktop for years https://theasciicode.com.ar/
as used to use ¼ ½  ¾ for imperial diameters and degrees ° at lot at work, disliked writing decimals with inches 12¼" seemed neater than 12.25" (had to pick from Symbols in Word for eights of an inch), has all the accents etc too. Yes numbers using the number pad as otherwise does not work.

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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 26 June 22 22:28 BST (UK) »
I have a link to it on my taskbar  :)
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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 26 June 22 22:44 BST (UK) »
The character map is the easiest.  I keep it on the taskbar, too.  Plus, it has hundreds of symbols and foreign alphabet characters.  The other easy way to get an accent is to google an accented word and then copy and paste it.  If you google 'Mexico' you'll get results with and without the accent
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Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: How to refer to future married name?
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 26 June 22 23:17 BST (UK) »
Holding down Alt Gr while pressing the letter will also do the same... é á  :)
Can you please explain the Gr bit as I don't seem to have enough fingers or wide spread of my fingers to press the letter whether a or e, Alt, capital G & lower case r?

Annie (Dunce)! ;D  ::)

Sorry Annie, have just seen this! You have probably already discovered it by now.. yes, the AltGr is to the right of the space bar and as someone has already mentioned hold that down then press the letter e.  My explanation wasn't very clear... sorry!  :-[

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