How do you type letters with accents over them?

Answer 1

Torbellina:
For Spanish try "Alt key + a code Number" as follow:
0225 for á
0233 for é
0237 for í
0243 for ó
0250 for ú
0252 for ü
0209 for Ñ
0241 for ñ
0161 for ¡
0191 for ¿
Those are the letters and marks I use in Spanish, hope they help you. By the way, you have to keep pressed the Alt key when entering the code.

Answer 2

There are different ways you can do that depending in what language you need to type and how often you are planning to do that.

If you are not planning to that often you can use either codes or insert symbol function. Both functions are time consuming and the problem with using codes is that you have to know them. However, these functions can be used if you are not typing a lot in a language that uses letters with accents or if there are not many accented letters in that particular language.

However, if you need to type a lot you would have to install additional keyboard. Most of them can be found in MS Windows. However, for typing in some languages there has to be installed additional software. At some instances there are localized version of Windows used.

Answer 3

BEL76's long list and paali's much shorter list are all very well, but most laptops haven't got a keypad at the right and I doubt if these codes will work using the numbers along the top. If you're using an ordinary PC, these codes certainly work only when using the keypad. Does your laptop have the AltGr key ? It's on the right of the space-bar on an ordinary keyboard. If it does, you can generate most of the characters needed for writing Spanish: á, Á, é, É, í, Í, ó, Ó, ú and Ú, as well as € (with the '4' key), but not, as far as I know, ñ, Ñ, ª, º, ¿ or ¡ When writing French, the commonest accented letters are é and à. I suppose you could use the AltGr key to type á instead of à and most people wouldn't even notice.

Answer 4

If you're using Microsoft Word, click "Insert" on the tool bar, then choose "Symbol". A window with all the available symbols will open, scroll through them until you find the one you want (probably in subset Latin-1), click once on it and then click the "insert" button at the bottom of the window. If its a character that you will use more than once, you can set up a shortcut key for it.

Answer 5

when i want to type in spanish i switch the language in the language bar to spanish, so to write an accent over a letter i press the ' button on my keyboard followed by the letter. i dunno what language you are going to type in, but in spanish it's the ' button

hope this helps :D

Answer 6

Go to "Insert" and then click "symbol" (you will find all accented letters there).

Answer 7

Those are alt codes, go to www.coloryourprofyle.com
they have a list of alt codes on there.

ô that one you have to hold down the alt key and type 147 then let go of the alt key....there are a whole bunch of them.

You can also look at them on your character map on your computer...go to start-programs-accessories-character map