Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Writing Spanish Accents, Tildes and Punctuation Marks

In Word 2000 and newer -

Do you need to write...

...an accent mark over a letter (á)?

Strike Ctrl + apostrophe + release + letter

...a tilde (~) over an n?

Strike Ctrl + Shift + ~ +release + n = ñ

...to use an opening exclamation point (¡)?

Strike Ctrl + Shift +Alt + != ¡

...to use an opening question mark (¿)?

Strike Ctrl + Shift +Alt +? = ¿

Using an older (dos) system?

á = ALT + 0225

é = ALT + 0233

í = ALT + 0237

ó = ALT + 0243

ú = ALT + 0250

ü = ALT + 0252

ñ = ALT + 0241

« = ALT + 0171

» = ALT + 0187