Open up the 'Keyboard' applet in your Control Panel, select the 'Language' tab, then pull up the Properties for the 'English (United States)' layout. Now, in the drop-down menu, change it from 'United States 101' to 'United States - International. Now, instead of having to remember the code to make an accented lowercase E, you can type an apostrophe first and then the letter; Windows will transmogrify it for you. ~n will become an 'n' with a tilde over it; "u will become a 'u' with an umlaut mark over it. Special key sequences include: ALT+/ (upside-down question mark), ALT+1 (upside-down exclamation mark), and ALT+c (copyright symbol). This excellent tip was shared by LockerGnome at http://www.lockergnome.com/ in the November 26, 1999 issue.