Existing users, 
My problem is not limited to version 11.5.5, but goes back over a year and to earlier versions of Office Word 2004. I have found a few others with the same problem, notably gmartin on this site.
I type in French. To create an accented character I hit the option key and the letter to be accented. 99% of the time no problem, but once in a long while (and then pretty consistently over a period of days or weeks) Word freezes when I do this. Can't save. If I go to the Finder, can't get back into Word. Must Force Quit and lose recent changes. All other applications fine. This is unspeakably annoying, and clearly others DO have the problem, is there no solution? Gmartin, have you found one?
I should add that I have changed computers and keyboards during this time and have clean reinstalled Office 2004. MacBook Pro, OSX 10.5.7. Many thanks for any suggestions!
Microsoft Office 2004
Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel, Word suite.
Version: 11.5.6
Option key for accent problem - eccparis
Which keyboard are you using? I've been using the French Canadian CSA keyboard for years, which is QWERTY with the most frequent accented letters in convenient places without having to use the option key. (I mean é, É, è, È, à, À, ç, Ç, whereas ^ and ¨ are also regular one-stroke keys that wait for you to put the letter under it. As for ` and ´, they do take the option key.)Maybe this is a better option for you, I mean if you weren't using it already?
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