Accents for Spanish vowels

[rreid66]

For Spanish using Times New Roman font, normally we create acute
accented vowels in Word for Macintosh by pressing option key + e,
release, then typing the vowel needed and it appears in the document
with an acute accent. We can also create acute accents with even fewer
key strokes by changing the keyboard to Spanish via System Preferences

International > Input Menu. The flag of Spain for Spanish appears on

the right side of the menu bar along with the flags of the USA for US
English or the flags (or alphabetical character) for any other
languages selected. Changing the keyboard to Spanish requires only
pressing the left bracket key ( [ ), release, then typing the vowel
needed. These two methods for typing acute accents for Spanish work
flawlessly in most cases.

For reasons unknown, occasionally neither of these two methods of
accenting vowels will work. We are forced to go to the Insert > Symbol
to select the acute accented letter from the character pallette, a
most tedious method of typing. Does anyone know why acute accents
sometimes fail to appear using keyboard shortcuts or keyboard
reassignment as they should?

 

[Ramón G Castañeda]

For Spanish using Times New Roman font, normally we create acute
accented vowels in Word for Macintosh by pressing option key + e,
release, then typing the vowel needed and it appears in the document
with an acute accent. We can also create acute accents with even fewer
key strokes by changing the keyboard to Spanish via System Preferences

International > Input Menu. The flag of Spain for Spanish appears on

the right side of the menu bar along with the flags of the USA for US
English or the flags (or alphabetical character) for any other
languages selected. Changing the keyboard to Spanish requires only
pressing the left bracket key ( [ ), release, then typing the vowel
needed. These two methods for typing acute accents for Spanish work
flawlessly in most cases.

For reasons unknown, occasionally neither of these two methods of
accenting vowels will work. We are forced to go to the Insert > Symbol
to select the acute accented letter from the character pallette, a
most tedious method of typing. Does anyone know why acute accents
sometimes fail to appear using keyboard shortcuts or keyboard
reassignment as they should?

You don't mention the exact version of your operating system or the version
of MS Word you are using.

If this only happens with Times New Roman, it's very possible that you are
using the old, quirky version of Microsoft's "Core Fonts". It's a well
known bug.

Fortunately, the Core Fonts Update is available as a free download from the
MS web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/down
load/office2001/fontsupdate.xml&secid=10&ssid=11&flgnosysreq=False