hmmm...it's alt 0191 for à and alt 0225 for á. My keyboard itself doesn't have both of them...it has only the à, which I can also get by doing ctrl a + `. I could go buy a different keyboard if I need those everyday, but with tables and this program, I can get everything I need.

I used the ' key carelessly in my example, but for most common words, it would be recognized as denoting an accent, and most folks would read it as meant. I'll try to be more careful, even though I don't know French...I use umlauts more often.