You can add special characters on a PC or Mac computer by using keyboard shortcuts or accessing a pop-up window.

You've probably been wondering how to get accented letters into your words when preparing documents using word processors like Microsoft Word. How do you get to include them? As it turns out, the ...

Colin Webb writes with a grave problem: The piece I’m writing at the moment needs me to use a few French expressions. Some of the French words have various different accents: acute, grave, circumflex, ...

Whether you prefer to use a Mac or a Windows PC, you might think you know all your computer’s secrets. After all, you use it every day, and modern technology is supposed to be so intuitive that you ...

Guess who’s old enough to drive? Google Docs is now 16 years old. Born in 2006, Google’s free-to-use word processor lets you create and edit documents in a web browser or mobile app, which is handy as ...