keyboard problem

Hi, I had to buy my asus laptop in france but I am used to type on a qwerty. I am new to the laptop but also to windows 11. I added the qwerty keyboard proposed by windows but did not find how to generate the accents in french. i know i can switch, but it s difficult and the on screen keyboard does not match exactely with the one on my laptop. i have to write in french and german too and it would be great to get hint how I could make it easier for me. i tried to ask the asus services but they have no idea and i never got the answer promised. i want to add that initially i tried to have the system in english but had to switch it back to french. a customer service attendant told me that otherwise my asus would be too confused.... copilot and claude tried their best but could not find a solution.

I have a
Asus A14 UX3407QA-UX3407QA
Modèle du processeur
Qualcomm

Capacité de stockage
512Go

Taille de l'écran (pouces)
14"

RAM installée
16Go

I would be grateful for any suggestion you may have!
cybergrandma (very silverage)

You may find the United States-International keyboard layout easier than switching between French and standard US layouts. Go to Settings → Time & language → Language & region → French → Language options → Keyboards → Add a keyboard, then look for United States-International. With the US-International layout you can keep a QWERTY-style layout while typing French accented characters using key combinations. For example, ' followed by e gives é, and ` followed by e gives è. You can also switch installed keyboard layouts quickly with Win + Space. Since your physical keyboard was made for the French market, the labels printed on the keys will still be AZERTY, but Windows can interpret the keys using the QWERTY layout.

I use a QWERTY UK keyboard and in Word and Excel using the key combinations below I get accented vowels: -

wiganken said:

I use a QWERTY UK keyboard and in Word and Excel using the key combinations below I get accented vowels: -
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thank you so much! many of the keys are now exactely like I know them but the special caracters still do not respond to the commands you mentionned. i restarted my computer and right now i try to install the keys for any language

You can also try this keyboard remapping software, called querty-fr: GitHub - qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr: Qwerty keyboard layout with French accents

wiganken said:

I use a QWERTY UK keyboard and in Word and Excel using the key combinations below I get accented vowels: -
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fahimbah said:

You may find the United States-International keyboard layout easier than switching between French and standard US layouts. Go to Settings → Time & language → Language & region → French → Language options → Keyboards → Add a keyboard, then look for United States-International. With the US-International layout you can keep a QWERTY-style layout while typing French accented characters using key combinations. For example, ' followed by e gives é, and ` followed by e gives è. You can also switch installed keyboard layouts quickly with Win + Space. Since your physical keyboard was made for the French market, the labels printed on the keys will still be AZERTY, but Windows can interpret the keys using the QWERTY layout.

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please see also former answer, when trying alt gr + e for instance I just get to open a new window on edge and in libre office it opens the help.. apparently windows has a hard time to download the keys for the different languages, i closed everything and but downloading is at snail s pace

rogerrabbit said:

You can also try this keyboard remapping software, called querty-fr: GitHub - qwerty-fr/qwerty-fr: Qwerty keyboard layout with French accents

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thank you for the hint, if installation of the foreign keys does not work i will try your suggestion

fahimbah said:

You may find the United States-International keyboard layout easier than switching between French and standard US layouts. Go to Settings → Time & language → Language & region → French → Language options → Keyboards → Add a keyboard, then look for United States-International. With the US-International layout you can keep a QWERTY-style layout while typing French accented characters using key combinations. For example, ' followed by e gives é, and ` followed by e gives è. You can also switch installed keyboard layouts quickly with Win + Space. Since your physical keyboard was made for the French market, the labels printed on the keys will still be AZERTY, but Windows can interpret the keys using the QWERTY layout.

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sorry i am a bit confused when answering - did not realize several kind people were looking for solutions for me. now i found out that i did not download at all the keys of different languages. would you know an extension of edge or brave allowing me to type the special keys without switching language. the altgr and crtl shift solutions are already attributed to other functions in libre office and on edge