less mad

OK. i can change my keyboard setting to act like it's a French keyboard. I can also in StarOffice Writer (StarOffice is the poor man's Microsoft Office) set up some AutoCorrects, to automatically change, say, e/ to é.
Whew.

mad

I am so pissed. I bought a number pad to connect to my laptop for the express purpose of being able easily insert letters with accents. For example, alt + 0233 should get you the e with an accent going to the, er, either left or right.
It doesn't fucking work. The keypad works, but I still can't make the special letters. How the fuck am i supposed to correspond (personal, not at work) in french? pissed, pissed, pissed off.
i can still make the letters, but have to use my word processor and use Insert/Special Character each and every time, and that gets pretty frickin tedious.
ARGH