How do you do this?

Question

When typing a word document, put the accent symbol on top of a letter as a lot of Spanish names and words have them and for the life of me I don't know how. If somebody could please help

Answer 1

Go to the "Insert" menu, then go to "Symbol...". If you look around there, you should find what you need.

There is also a keyboard shortcut that you may prefer to use:

For Windows: Press CTRL and ' together, let go of them, then press the key of the letter you'd like the accent on (for example, a or e).

For Apple/Macintosh: Press CTRL and E together, let go of them, then press the key of the letter you'd like the accent on.

Hope this helps, good luck! :)

Answer 2

For Word Document only:
Just go to INSERT then SYMBOL and you can find the letter you want with the accent or tilde and you can select it and it will display on page.

If you want to do it anywhere anytime, not just Word:

In Win XP only, select Regional and Language Options.

On the resulting window you should have a tab that either says LANGUAGES or INPUT LOCALES. It's not selected by default, so select it now by clicking on it.

In Win XP only, select Text services and input languages, then the Details button.

This view shows you your language – typically English United States – on the left, and your keyboard layout – typically US, US-101 or some variant – on the right.

Click on the ADD button. The language label you choose here really doesn't matter, but you could make it French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc., to designate the language's special characters you'll most often use.

Click on PROPERTIES (if necessary) to select the associated Keyboard Layout. From the list, select United States-International. This layout is what will enable you to easily type most accented characters.

Now you can easily type any accented character via a 2-key combination, as follows:

To type the tilde over a letter, as in añañuca, el niño or la niña, type ~n. In other words, type the tilde character by itself, followed by the letter over which you desire it to appear. The tilde won't appear on the screen, but, as soon as you hit the letter, the accented character appears. Should no such accented character exist, you’ll get the tilde and the character separately, just as you typed them. Not every combination is "legal" or provided. Hence, ~ + a = ã, but ~ + i = ~i. There is no "tilde-I" character.

Answer 3

Two ways - either you use the Insert->Symbol or you could use the character map which comes with Windows

Answer 4

We (Spanish) have them in our keyboards, but if you don't have the Spanish keyboard, you must use the ASCII table, you may find it here: http://www.lookuptables.com/

To type a symbol you only have to press the Alt key and while is pulsed, type the number in the column DEC, so to type ~ you must press Alt + 126.

Answer 5

http://www.lookuptables.com/
Go to the bottom of the page and look at Extended ASCII Codes
Hold ALT and type the number of the character you want:
ALT+138 = è

Answer 6

i could help u transletate the spanish words if u want
im a latino

Answer 7

use insert symbol

Answer 8

go to insert symbol and it should be there

Answer 9

Insert ->
symbol.
choose what you need.

Answer 10

you need to look up the ASCII codes