Oh my God, thank you a thousand times over for this invaluable video! And, hope you don't judge me for this kind of dumb question but, how did you change the letter to red? Thanks so much.
Not a stupid question at all! I am using Microsoft Word on a Mac. I have assigned keyboard shortcuts to various colours that I want to apply regularly. In the case of red characters for example, I have assigned Ctrl-z. Blue characters are Ctrl-x, green characters are Ctrl-c, and so on. Then, it's simply a matter of selecting the relevant text and typing the shortcut. =========== Tools > Customize keyboard… > Categories: Format > Commands: Color > (Press new keyboard shortcut:) > Assign > Ok.
I’m looking into buying a macbook and I am living in France and looking on the Apple Store you seem to be able to pick keyboards like British, international or french and others, I personally want a qwerty keyboard because it is just better but can these accents be done on all the keyboards or do I need certain ones? And do you know if there is a keyboard that is the best for my situation? Thanks and great video!
I can’t imagine not using a qwerty keyboard even though I spend most of my time typing French. I’ve been working since the late 80s on Macs with qwerty keyboards set to the default British keyboard layout. (That was the keyboard layout setting when I made this video.) When I’m not working on my MacBook Pro with this configuration, I’m working on a Mac Mini M1 with an external Satechi full-size keyboard that is about a year old and which is nice although, if I had my time back, I might simply go for the external full-size Mac keyboard. The latter seems to be a beautiful keyboard even though I don’t own one. Finally, I previously had a severe bout of repetitive strain in both hands after doing many hours of typing daily for two weeks on a very text-intensive project. When that happened, I simply could not type at all without extreme pain. Consequently I bought - and used for several years - a Microsoft, curved, ergonomic keyboard which immediately eliminated the problem. It wasn’t pretty and was quite noisy but was - and still is - excellent. It did however require some slightly different key combinations for typing French accents. Anyway, to answer your question about the ‘best’ keyboard, I have always found the Mac keyboards to be very good, albeit expensive. Cheap keyboards are a false economy, especially if you do as much typing as I do. Hope this helps.
@@hughan00 it does thank you but I know you can buy french keyboards from apple that are Canadian French (so they are still in qwerty) and I think they have accented letters as single press buttons so I need to keep looking into that since most of the work I do on it will be in french I would prefer to press one button for the accent rather than 4 because I feel like doing all those shortcuts endlessly will slow me down quite a lot but I guess you get used to it. Thanks for your opinion!
In that case, you can simply use a regular English 'qwerty' keyboard and install the Canadian English layout via System Preferences > Keyboard > [Add Canadian French - CSA]. Then the keyboard will function as a normal 'qwerty' keyboard but you will also have one-press access to accented characters. Some lesser-used characters (nearer the extremities of the keyboard) will be re-assigned the accented keys. En bref… I think you simply need to do that simple installation via System Preferences and away you go...
@@hughan00 Ok, thank you very much for your help. A French Canadian keyboard does seem quite hard to get in Europe so I will probably just get a British one. I’m assuming after a while using the techniques shown in the video you can type pretty fluently without having to stop every time there is an accented letter.
Yes, that is true. I can type very quickly now (in both French and/or English). It has become second nature to me. Spending a month learning how to touch-type many years ago was one of the best investments of time I have made.
This is with 'British' as the keyboard Input Source (which you specify via System Preferences). (System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources > British.)
Thank you for sharing. This is the easiest explanation on French accents on mac keyboard.
Glad you think so!
Thank you, you're an excellent teacher. Hope you make more video teaching french
Thank you very much, I’ve been avoiding my accent in emails cause I didn’t know how to do them lol
Oh my God, thank you a thousand times over for this invaluable video!
And, hope you don't judge me for this kind of dumb question but, how did you change the letter to red?
Thanks so much.
Not a stupid question at all! I am using Microsoft Word on a Mac. I have assigned keyboard shortcuts to various colours that I want to apply regularly. In the case of red characters for example, I have assigned Ctrl-z. Blue characters are Ctrl-x, green characters are Ctrl-c, and so on. Then, it's simply a matter of selecting the relevant text and typing the shortcut.
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Tools > Customize keyboard… > Categories: Format > Commands: Color > (Press new keyboard shortcut:) > Assign > Ok.
Hi hello full support i sent you thank u for sharing
So so helpful! 🙏🏾😊
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you! this is what I need but my keyboard is in Spanish and my MacBook Pro is 2021!!!!!
Mystery solved and much quicker than my ‘cut and paste’ method 🎉
Formidable! Merci infiniment!
Thank you so much! Your the best
You're welcome!
Thank you but How to type connected {o&u} like in {sour = sister }in windows and mac
On a mac, type option-q to get this character (la sœur). (I'm not working on a PC at the moment so can't check on that platform right now... Sorry.)
I’m looking into buying a macbook and I am living in France and looking on the Apple Store you seem to be able to pick keyboards like British, international or french and others, I personally want a qwerty keyboard because it is just better but can these accents be done on all the keyboards or do I need certain ones? And do you know if there is a keyboard that is the best for my situation? Thanks and great video!
I can’t imagine not using a qwerty keyboard even though I spend most of my time typing French. I’ve been working since the late 80s on Macs with qwerty keyboards set to the default British keyboard layout. (That was the keyboard layout setting when I made this video.) When I’m not working on my MacBook Pro with this configuration, I’m working on a Mac Mini M1 with an external Satechi full-size keyboard that is about a year old and which is nice although, if I had my time back, I might simply go for the external full-size Mac keyboard. The latter seems to be a beautiful keyboard even though I don’t own one. Finally, I previously had a severe bout of repetitive strain in both hands after doing many hours of typing daily for two weeks on a very text-intensive project. When that happened, I simply could not type at all without extreme pain. Consequently I bought - and used for several years - a Microsoft, curved, ergonomic keyboard which immediately eliminated the problem. It wasn’t pretty and was quite noisy but was - and still is - excellent. It did however require some slightly different key combinations for typing French accents. Anyway, to answer your question about the ‘best’ keyboard, I have always found the Mac keyboards to be very good, albeit expensive.
Cheap keyboards are a false economy, especially if you do as much typing as I do. Hope this helps.
@@hughan00 it does thank you but I know you can buy french keyboards from apple that are Canadian French (so they are still in qwerty) and I think they have accented letters as single press buttons so I need to keep looking into that since most of the work I do on it will be in french I would prefer to press one button for the accent rather than 4 because I feel like doing all those shortcuts endlessly will slow me down quite a lot but I guess you get used to it. Thanks for your opinion!
In that case, you can simply use a regular English 'qwerty' keyboard and install the Canadian English layout via System Preferences > Keyboard > [Add Canadian French - CSA]. Then the keyboard will function as a normal 'qwerty' keyboard but you will also have one-press access to accented characters. Some lesser-used characters (nearer the extremities of the keyboard) will be re-assigned the accented keys. En bref… I think you simply need to do that simple installation via System Preferences and away you go...
@@hughan00 Ok, thank you very much for your help. A French Canadian keyboard does seem quite hard to get in Europe so I will probably just get a British one. I’m assuming after a while using the techniques shown in the video you can type pretty fluently without having to stop every time there is an accented letter.
Yes, that is true. I can type very quickly now (in both French and/or English). It has become second nature to me. Spending a month learning how to touch-type many years ago was one of the best investments of time I have made.
merci
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THIS DOESN'T WORK. I CAN'T TYPE THE LETTER UNDERNEATH. IT JUST TYPES THE ACCENT AND THE LETTER TO THE RIGHT!
This is with 'British' as the keyboard Input Source (which you specify via System Preferences). (System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources > British.)
You the best