how to insert an e with an accent mark in a document

My whole job revolves around squeezing 40+ languages into InDesign, so I'm likely to reply to any post that is at all related to non-English stuff. Can you tell us what keystroke(s) you're using, what operating system you're using, and what font you are using? InDesign CS5 is occasionally flaky about 'combining accents' but if your font doesn't have the combining glyphs I think it simply won't work.

Is this something that broke in CS5 and just needs to be fixed? InDesign is not allowing me to have the accent over the letter. I even looked it up online to get the correct keystrokes for the correct direction and accent. the backslash on your English-hardware keyboard has been replaced with the cedilla. THis might not work for you because for all such keyboards you wind up needing to memorize that e.g.

I'm not sitting at my Mac so I can't recall the precise steps but it's in the same menu area as the Character viewer. In your shoes, I might uinstall a French keyboard. I thought you just bumped an old thread with a post of a solution that doesn't involve typing accents.

How to insert an e with an accent mark in a document