Hi Rick, On my keyboard there is a key laballed 'Alt Gr' to the immediate right of the space bar. When this key is held down, e becomes é, a becomes á (and 4 becomes € ?!).Worth playing around with if you've got a similar keyboard. Otherwise, people have posted various other ways of loading accents, fadas, etc. in other threads- ask again if you need these.
Regards
Noreen