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Ketty Magnus's recent e-mailed suggestion regarding French accents will do as a temporary solution. However, for a more permanent one, the user of a Windows-based PC should go through the following eight steps: 1. Click on START 2. Choose the SETTINGS option 3. Click on CONTROL PANEL 4. Click on the icon marked KEYBOARD 5. In the small window titled "Keyboard Properties," choose the tab LANGUAGE (and not SPEED) 6. Click then on the button ADD 7. Scroll down the long list of languages, choose FRENCH (CANADIAN)not the other French 8. Finally, click on OK. NOTE: A small, blue icon bearing the letters ENG (for English) should appear in the taskbar of your screen. To get to FR (for French), hold down the ALT key and press the SHIFT key. This command will let you toggle between two keyboards, English and French. You can have as many as you want; for example ES (for Spanish).

All that's left now is for the user to learn how to use the newly added FR or ES keyboards. One practical way is to experiment. Well, after all, aren't we in the country whose philosophy is Pragmatism, a country famous for its "learning by doing" method?

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