How to type accent marks?

[Guest]

I use a standard QWERTY keyboard; it does the job right most all the time.
Occasionally, however, I need to add a cedilla, or either acute or grave
accents to various vowels, as one would on a french keyboard. I also need a
way to add an umlaut for German, or a tilde for spanish.

What's the easiest way to add these marks without changing keyboards?

Thanks,

Norm Strong

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I use a standard QWERTY keyboard; it does the job right most all the
time. Occasionally, however, I need to add a cedilla, or either acute
or grave accents to various vowels, as one would on a french
keyboard. I also need a way to add an umlaut for German, or a tilde
for spanish.
What's the easiest way to add these marks without changing keyboards?

There are several ways. I use a little freeware background program called
AllChars. This lets me type many common special characters (many of these
are used in other languages) by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two
character mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and , For ü
it's u and "

 

[Bill P]

I use a standard QWERTY keyboard; it does the job right most all the time.
Occasionally, however, I need to add a cedilla, or either acute or grave
accents to various vowels, as one would on a french keyboard. I also need
a way to add an umlaut for German, or a tilde for spanish.

What's the easiest way to add these marks without changing keyboards?

Thanks,

Norm Strong

I usually just open Character Map (Accessories/System Tools/Character Map).
Select what you want and paste into your Word document.
Regards
Bill

 

[Guest]

-In many programs you can hold down the lefthand Alt key, and type the ASCII
code on the numeric keypad, starting with a zero. Not quite so easy but has
the advantage it works on any computer running Windowsž™

(Alt+0153)

 

[Andrew Murray]

There are several ways. I use a little freeware background program called
AllChars. This lets me type many common special characters (many of these
are used in other languages) by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two
character mnemonic combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and , For
ü it's u and "

 

[Andrew Murray]

-In many programs you can hold down the lefthand Alt key, and type the
ASCII
code on the numeric keypad, starting with a zero. Not quite so easy but
has
the advantage it works on any computer running WindowsžT

(Alt+0153)

 

[Guest]

That's great. Much more sensible than the alt+0196 etc.

(Of course, that's how it's always worked on a Mac)

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

That's great. Much more sensible than the alt+0196 etc.

Yes, it's a lot easier to remember All-char mnemonics than alt-key
combinations

 

[Anthony Buckland]

I use a standard QWERTY keyboard; it does the job right most all the time.
Occasionally, however, I need to add a cedilla, or either acute or grave
accents to various vowels, as one would on a french keyboard. I also need
a way to add an umlaut for German, or a tilde for spanish.

What's the easiest way to add these marks without changing keyboards?

Thanks,

Norm Strong

Is Character Map not in System Tools under Accessories in your system?
If it is, just run it, if necessary select your font, select the accented
character(s),
and copy-and-paste.