French accent marks on Macs

Whenever you need to add accents to documents or keynotes, please feel free to use this as a resource!

Miss G

Borrowed for educational use from http://french.about.com/od/writing/ss/typeaccents_8.htm

To type accents on an Apple with the option key, hold down the option key while pressing the key(s) in bold in this list. For example, to type ê, hold the option key while typing i, then release both and type e. To type î, hold option, type i, release and type i again.

Note: In these instructions, "and" means to keep holding the option key and the first key listed while typing the second. "Then" means to release the option key and the first key before typing the second.

acute accent
  é   Hold option key and e then e

grave accent
  à, è, ù   Hold option key and ` then a, e, or u

cedilla
  ç   Hold option key and c

circumflex
  â, ê, î, ô, û   Hold option key and i then a, e, i, o, or u

tréma
  ë, ï, ü   Hold option key and u then e, i, or u

oe ligature
  œ   Hold option key and q

French quotation marks
  «   Hold option key and \
  »   Hold option key and shift key and \

Euro symbol
  €   Hold option key and shift key and 2