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Question

Do you know how to do the accents on the a+` and n+~? I have a Sony Vaio.(it is a laptop). Many people tell me how to do it but it does not work because they have the regular pc's that are not portable!

Answer 1

Well if you have windows XP or 2000 (with 95/98 it might need to be installed from teh disk) there is a program called character map. It display what keys need to be pressed to type a certain letter, or you can double click the letter and copy it to the clipboard and paste it into you typing software. You should set the font in character map to the one you are using in your appliaction.

To acces Character map click START > (ALL) PROGRAMS > ACCESORIES > SYSTEM TOOLS > CHARACTER MAP.

You will see that if you are using Arial Font to type the A with a grave (à) you must hold down alt (not alt Gr) and type in 0224

or n with tilde ñ, hold down alt and press 0241.

In Microsoft Word you can goto INSERT on the file menu and select SYMBOL it will give the options of inserting these characters from there. Word also accpts other shortcuts to make those symbols (hold down CONTROL (Ctrl) and type 'a).

The shortcut keys the people might have given you were probaly for word but if you use a different language (or word processor) from theres it might differ. The character map however is the easiest to learn all the symbols from and works for all programs where you can type in Windows.

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Answer 2

Windows XP

Log On
Click the Start button
Click on Control Panel
Click Regional and Language Options - a new window will pop up
Click the Languages tab
Click on the Details button
Click the Add button - a new window will pop up
Select United States-International (keyboard layout menu)
Click OK
Click Apply
Read the instructions for "Using the U.S. - International Keyboard" below.
Note: You will now have a keyboard icon on the taskbar (usually on the right side). To switch between keyboard layouts click the keyboard icon on the task bar and choose which layout you want to use. Changing the keyboard layout will only affect the log on profile used. No other users will be affected.

Using the U.S. - International Keyboard

If you followed the above directions carefully, your keyboard will now react slightly differently than it did before. First of all, notice that if you strike the single apostrophe (') key, nothing happens. To type the single apostrophe now, you must strike the single apostrophe key and then strike the space bar. When you strike the spacebar, the apostrophe will appear.

The next thing to note is that the quotes (") key behaves the same way as the apostrophe key. You must first strike the quotes key and then strike the space bar in order to create the (") symbol. These two minor inconveniences are more than made up for by the ease with which you can now type the special characters.

To type the special characters, two keystrokes are required. To type the á, you need only strike the apostrophe key and then the letter a. The other characters are just as easy:

á = ' + a
é = ' + e
í = ' + i
ó = ' + o
ú = ' + u
ñ = ~ + n
ü = " + u
To type the special punctuation characters, you need to hold down on the Alt key while you strike the appropriate punctuation mark. On some keyboards, only one of the two Alt keys will work for this.

¡ = Alt (hold down) + !
¿ = Alt (hold down) + ?

Answer 3

No I dont.