Accent marks directly on top of letters (English)

[Guest]

I want to insert accent marks directly on top of letters, e.g., "Alarcon"
with the accent mark over the "o" rather than the mark breaking up the word
such as "Alarc[accent mark space]on" or "Alarco[accent space]n" or
Alarcon[accent mark after "n"]. This name happens to be Hispanic. Do I need
to switch to Spanish to get the mark? I see a tildee in the Symbols menu and
it works directly over the "n". Another example is "de ja vu" (French)
placing the regular accent mark over the "e" and a backwards accent mark over
the "a". I see it printed this way in a dictionary.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I want to insert accent marks directly on top of letters, e.g.,
"Alarcon" with the accent mark over the "o" rather than the mark
breaking up the word such as "Alarc[accent mark space]on" or
"Alarco[accent space]n" or Alarcon[accent mark after "n"]. This name
happens to be Hispanic. Do I need to switch to Spanish to get the
mark? I see a tildee in the Symbols menu and it works directly over
the "n". Another example is "de ja vu" (French) placing the regular
accent mark over the "e" and a backwards accent mark over the "a". I
see it printed this way in a dictionary.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

As a general rule in Word, you can press Ctrl+ the accent you want to use,
followed by the letter you want accented. So, Ctrl+' followed by e gives you
é, or Ctl+` followed by e gives you è.

If you need a more comprehensive and natural solution, look into installing
foreign keyboard support in the Languages toolbar.