Creating Spanish Language Characters. How to create Spanish characters, punctuation  and accents on the Windows and Macintosh platforms to type on an English keyboard

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Spanish Characters and Accent marks on an English keyboard

     

Creating Spanish Language Characters and accent marks
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ow to create Spanish characters, punctuation and accents marks on the Windows and Macintosh platforms to type on an English keyboard

 
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WINDOWS SPANISH CHARACTERS AND ACCENT MARKS

When using Windows you MUST use the numeric keypad (to the right of the keyboard) to type these special characters.
 
á Hold down ALT and type 160      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0225
é Hold down ALT and type 130      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0233
í Hold down ALT and type 161      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0237
ó Hold down ALT and type 162      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0243
ú Hold down ALT and type 163      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0250
Á Hold down ALT and type 0193
É Hold down ALT and type 0201
Í Hold down ALT and type 0205
Ó Hold down ALT and type 0211
Ú Hold down ALT and type 0218
ü Hold down ALT and type 129      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0252
Ü Hold down ALT and type 154      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0220
ñ Hold down ALT and type 164      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0241
Ñ Hold down ALT and type 165      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0209
¿ Hold down ALT and type 168      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0191
¡ Hold down ALT and type 173      or
  Hold down ALT and type 0161
¼ Hold down ALT and type 172
½ Hold down ALT and type 171
º Hold down ALT and type 167

Programming Spanish Characters and Spanish Accent Marks on Word

It is also possible to program Microsoft Word to use a key such as the ALT with the letter or symbol to do the same thing. Go to the Insert menu and select Symbol, highlight the symbol that you want to program, such as Á (capital A with accent). Then select the Shortcut Key and "press new shortcut key". The "current keys" will tell you what the current shortcut is to that key. Since I use very few shortcuts on my keyboard, I have assigned ALT + n to give me ñ and ATL + o to give me ó (accented o) etc.
You will still need the above codes because this programming only works in Word, of course, you can always create your documents in Word and then cut and paste them into email and other types of documents.

Suppress the Red and Green Underline in Word

If you are using MS Word and the wavy underlines check spelling (red underline) and check grammar (green underline) clutter your document, while you are typing in Spanish, you can temporarily hide them as follows:
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab.
2. Select the Hide spelling errors in this document and Hide grammatical errors in this document check boxes.

 

MACINTOSH SPANISH CHARACTERS AND ACCENT MARKS

For Capital Letter, press Shift with the final character

á Hold down Option and e and type a
é Hold down Option and e and type e
í Hold down Option and e and type i
ó Hold down Option and e and type o
ú Hold down Option and u and type u
Á Hold down Option, e and Shift and type a
É Hold down Option, e and Shift and type e
Í Hold down Option, e and Shift and type i
Ó Hold down Option, e and Shift and type o
Ú Hold down Option, e and Shift and type u
ü Hold down Option and e and type u
Ü Hold down Option and u and type u
ñ Hold down Option and n and type n
Ñ Hold down Option, n and Shift and type n
¿ Hold down Option and Shift and type /
¡ Hold down Option and type 1

 


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