Article: Character Map leads to just the right accent for e-mail.

Byline: James Coates

Q. I often write in German and occasionally in French and need a way to type umlauts on "a" or "o" or "u" or accents in French. Since both are Microsoft programs, I tried the insert method that works on Word but cannot get it to work on Outlook Express.

The frustrating thing is the symbols are resident in the program, since they appear on incoming messages. There is probably an easy way, and I just don't get it.

Thank you for your help with this, which has been frustrating me for years.

_Mark K. Strassle, Lancaster, Pa.

A. With bare-bones software like the Outlook Express e-mail program included in ...

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