How to make a capital a with accent? - NextPlz

Writing a text is now child's play! But when you have to insert certain special characters with an azerty keyboard, things can quickly get complicated. This is particularly the case when you want to insert an accented a in capital letters! However, there are many solutions! We offer you different methods and solutions to achieve this. And accented capital a will soon have no more secrets for you. Acute accent or grave accent, accented capitals, keyboard shortcuts: you will become an expert in this field!

Accented capital letters: keyboard shortcuts

This is the easiest method. The latter combines two successive keyboard shortcuts. The first allows you to select the desired accent and the second to write the capital letter. For example, to write an À, it is necessary to link a first combination to define the accent and a second for the capital A. This method applies with the main keyboard and not the numeric keypad of your computer. Here are the shortcuts. We also include the method for other uppercase accented letters to help you!

You can also use ASCII codes. This coding standard can be faster, provided you remember these simple combinations. You must have a numeric keypad. A little advice: think of our these combinations in your clipboard application to remember them!

Make a capital a with accent

Here is a short summary of the keyboard shortcuts for capitalizing an accented. Whatever the accent, you have the option of switching the character to uppercase.

How to make a capital A with acute accent?

Here is the shortcut with the alt key to make the a capital acute accent (Á): Alt+0193

How do I make a capital A with a grave accent?

Here is the shortcut with the alt key to make the capital a grave accent (À): Alt+0192

How to make a capital A with a circumflex accent?

You must perform the following key combination:

Use the Windows special character table

The operating system provides you with a dedicated special character table. To access it and choose your accented letter, nothing could be simpler:

Just type cmd in the Windows search bar and press Enter.

Then enter the "charmap" command and confirm.

All you have to do is copy the desired character!

How to make accents on an azerty keyboard?

The spelling rules require accented letters to be capitalized. The azerty keyboard makes this quite easy. At least for most of the accented vowels. Do not panic: we give you the solutions below!

All accented capital letters can only be made floating, unlike some lower case letters that can be typed quickly on an AZERTY keyboard. For all the others, you will need to combine at least two steps, in particular using the numeric keypad on your keyboard. With practice, these combinations will become simple daily reflexes. Here are some codes to remember:

To capitalize with accent, simply hold down the Shift/Shift key before typing the desired vowel

To make a capital c cedilla: hold the Alt key and type 128 on the numeric keypad. Then release the Alt key. This combination also works on most word processors, including Microsoft Office

You can also remember these few simplified codes, if you have a numeric keypad:

The method: copy and paste

For the most recalcitrant, here is a selection of all accented ones to keep preciously in your clipboard. All you have to do is copy these letters directly into your input or onto your text:

Á â ä å

Another simple trick: store these shapes in a clipboard application or pass your special character table application!