Spanish accents - keyboard

Question

I have an Inspiron 9400 laptop.  With a desktop keyboard, I could do say, Alt + 161/162 etc, to get Spanish accents.  The Inspiron doesn't have a separate number keyboard, and no matter what combination I use, I can't seem to get the new keyboard to do it.  Any suggestions?!  I only need to use them occasionally, so it's not worth changing the settings in control panel.

mombodog · Answer

Turn off numlock You will want to invest in this program if you do allot of Spanish accents   http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharwin/

RoHe · Answer

If you're using MS Office, click Insert>Symbol on the toolbar. Find the accented letters you need and then set up a hotkey combo that will insert that character directly into the doc. Office may have hotkeys already assigned for the common ones.

Ron

ChrisM15 · Answer

Thanks for that - very useful.

ChrisM15 · Answer

Much appreciated.

JRosenfeld · Answer

Or you can copy/paste from charactermap (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CHARMAP.EXE if you don't have a shortcut to it)

ChrisM15 · Answer

many thanks

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