OPTION 1: TYPING SPANISH ACCENTS EASILY
(My Favorite!!!)
Typing
Spanish Accents Easily:
Although most people memorize codes, I enthusiastically recommend
Andrew Lu's free
genius download called Spanish Accents CapsLock.exe which
makes any Spanish character with a
push of the tab or the caps lock key!
Just download the tiny 417 kb .exe file.
For
occasional use, place it anywhere in your computer. Make a shortcut to
it, and place it in your desktop or taskbar. Whenever you need to type
accents in Spanish, just click on the shortcut, hold Caps Lock key, and
type the letter.
For daily use, place the .exe file in your Start folder. This way, it
will be running from the start (only 1,668 memory use). |
OPTION
2: WINDOWS SPANISH CHARACTERS AND ACCENT
MARKS
(SCROLL DOWN FOR MACs ACCENT CODES)
When
using Windows you MUST use the numeric keypad (to the right of the
keyboard) to type these special characters.
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 e-mail 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.
OPTION
3: 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 e |
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 u |
and type |
u |
| Ü |
Hold down Option and u,
release and then hold down Shift |
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 |
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