Strollin try this

to put an acute accent on the letter 'e'

Hold down the Alt key on your keyboard and type one of the following numbers on your Numeric keypad (not the numbers along the top of the keyboard)and then let the Alt key go. Your letter should appear.

é = Alt 130
ë = Alt 137
è = Alt 138

The numbers are ASCII codes

here is a link to the ASCII code table ASCII tables
The dec column is the ASCII number and the red character are what you get. Look at the Extended ASCII codes table at the bottom of that web page.

Hope this works when I post it :-)

Cheers
Les