International Nesties
Dear Community,

Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.

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Thank you.

Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.

gmail & accent marks

I thought the IN crowd might know the answer to this. I'm still working on a U.S. keyboard. Is there an easy way to make accent marks in gmail? To date, I've been writing things in MS Word, then cutting and pasting, but there has to be an easier way.
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Re: gmail & accent marks

  • I always just use the Alt+number pad combinations. I've memorized most of the ones I use most often. (a year of French class in college helped with that)

    e.g. Alt+0233 on the number pad = ?

    It doesn't work so well on the laptop, though, since there's no separate number pad. And then I have to keep turning NumLock on and off. 

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  • If you right-click on the bar across the bottom of the screen and then go up to toolbars "language bar" should be an option (or do a search for "language bar"--mine might be listed there because I've already installed it).  Once you install it you can change your keyboard from English to another (mine's in International Spanish).  When I'm writing I just have to click on the button that it posts on the bottom of the screen to change keyboards, then I can use the shift + apostrophe then the vowel I want a tilde on, instead of all the alt + number combos.  If you're not already used to using an international keyboard it takes a little while (when I first started I drew a map of the keyboard, so I didn't have to spend a lot of time trying to find certain keys (quotation marks, the arroba, etc.)), but now it's second nature to me.
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