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You’ll use the Ctrl or Shift key along with the accent key on your keyboard, followed by a quick press of the letter.įor example, to get the á character, you’d press Ctrl+’ (apostrophe), release those keys, and then quickly press the A key. You may have noticed earlier back at the “More Symbols” screen that Word actually tells you what the shortcut key is for that character.Īnd the best part is that these shortcuts follow a kind of formula, so you don’t necessarily have to memorize them all. Microsoft Word has lots of great keyboard shortcuts, and shortcuts for accented characters are no exception. Insert Accented Letters with Keyboard Shortcuts Pretty simple, right? But, what if you need to insert some symbols pretty often and don’t want to open up and search that Symbol window every time? Well, we have a couple of tricks to show you. Just in the image below, you can see the symbols for copyright (©) and registered trademark (®). Note while you’re here that there are all kinds of other useful symbols in this window. That’s where you’ll likely find the accented letter you’re after.Ĭlick the character you’re looking for, and then click the “Insert” button to insert it into your document. For now, though, go ahead and choose “Latin-1 Supplement” from the “Subset” dropdown. In fact, if you scroll through the available characters, you can watch the Subset value change.

The “Subset” dropdown lets you jump to particular subsets of characters.

Second, on some keyboards, only one of the two Alt keys will work for this method.Use the “Font” dropdown menu to choose the font you’re using (or, you can just select the “Normal Text” entry). First, when you type in the numbers, some keyboards require that you use the “numeric keypad” located to the side, rather than the numbers along the top. When using this (out-dated) system, there are two important things to remember. You can reference the following codes to specify the letters you would like to input: To do this you will hold down the ALT key on your keyboard while typing a specific four digit number, then release the ALT key. If, for some reason, you don’t want to change your keyboard, you can always type in the troublesome cryptic codes. On some keyboards, only one of the two Alt keys will work for this. To type the special punctuation characters, you need to hold down on the Alt key while you strike the appropriate punctuation mark. To type the capitalized version of any of these letters, you would do the same but hold down SHIFT when typing the letter. To type the á, you need only strike the apostrophe key and then the letter a. To type the special characters, two keystrokes are required. These two minor inconveniences are more than made up for by the ease with which you can now type the special characters. You must first strike the quotes key and then strike the space bar in order to create the (“) symbol. The next thing to note is that the quotes (“) key behaves the same way as the apostrophe key. When you strike the spacebar, the apostrophe will appear. To type the single apostrophe now, you must strike the single apostrophe key and then strike the space bar. First of all, notice that if you strike the single apostrophe (‘) key, nothing happens. If you followed the above directions carefully, your keyboard will now react slightly differently than it did before.

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Now that you have the International Keyboard installed, you can read the next section to learn how to use it.

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You can also switch keyboards by pressing the Windows key and the space bar simultaneously.

You will want to use the “ ENG INTL” keyboard to easily type Spanish characters. Click on it to change the current keyboard any time you need to. It will likely say “ ENG US” or “ ENG INTL“.

On your Windows task bar (bottom bar) on the very right you should now see an indicator of what language your keyboard is currently using.

Note: you may have to scroll down the list a bit to find it.

From the list of keyboards, click on the one that says “ United States-International“.

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Click on the plus ( +) button to add a new keyboard.

Now the form will show the Keyboards that are installed on the computer.

Click on the button that says ‘ Options‘.

Some options should appear beneath the keyboard language after you clicked on it.

At the bottom of this page, it should list the language that your keyboard is currently setup for now.

On the left-side menu, click on Region & Language (or it may just say Language).

Within the Settings menu, Click on Time & Language.

Click on the Windows Start Menu, then open the Settings menu (gear icon that will appear above the Start Menu icon).