HOW TO INSERT THE PROPER SPANISH DIACRITICS USING MS WORD

 

Using Microsoft Word on PC or Macintosh computers, you can type the letters with the accents and the tilde very easily. You can make the upside-down question mark and exclamation points. Follow these few easy steps:

 

To make “ñ” or an accented vowel, you have to press all the indicated keys at the same time, release them, then type “n” or the desired vowel. For the other symbols, all keys have to be pressed at the same time.

 

Press

To make

Example

CTRL+SHIFT+ ~(TILDE), the letter

ñ

año

CTRL+’(APOSTROPHE), the letter

á, é, í, ó, ú

adiós

ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+?

¿

¿Por qué?

ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+!

¡

¡Hola!

CTRL+SHIFT+COLON(:), the letter

ü

lingüísta