Gimme a ñ!

[EvieDean]

This has been driving me nuts for years now. I teach computer skills to Spanish speakers and type many documents in Spanish. I have figured out all the shortcut keys for accents and upside-down exclamation points, but I cannot get the shortcut for the ñ to work. Every time I want an ñ, I have to do Insert, Symbol, and find it there . It says the shortcut key is Ctrl+~, N but this does not work on any computer in any version of Word.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Evie

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Hi, EvieDean. Try Ctrl+Shift+~, n.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It works here, but as Garfield says - you need to press the shift key to
access the ~.

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[Ed White]

I have 3 computers, one w/ Ofc 2000, one w/ Ofc XP, and one w/ Ofc 2003. The three-key thingies for n w/ tilde, upside-down ? & !, u w/ two dots on top do not work on any of them. The keyboards are International, languages English(Amer) and Spanish (Modern Sort). I use the ALT+ 0225=á,etc. to get what I need in 2000 and XP, but this does not work in 2003.

Numeric keypad method
á Alt + 0225 à Alt + 0193
é Alt + 0233 É Alt + 0201
í Alt + 0237 à Alt + 0205
ñ Alt + 0241 Ñ Alt + 0209
ó Alt + 0243 Ó Alt + 0211
ú Alt + 0250 Ú Alt + 0218
ü Alt + 0252 Ü Alt + 0220
¿ Alt + 0191 ¡ Alt + 0161
« Alt + 0171 » Alt + 0187

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm. Insertion methods
will naturally differ when the keyboard setting is other than U.S.

Your description of "three-key thingies" suggests one possible reason for
failure in the case of ñ. If you are pressing all three keys at the same
time, then that is your problem. You must press the setup key first (Ctrl+~
in this instance), then the letter (n or N).

The keyboard shortcuts for ¿ and ¡, on the other hand, are in fact four-key
ones, and I can confirm that they work in Word 2003. They are, however,
described a bit misleadingly: the Insert Symbol dialog says Alt+Ctrl+? and
Alt+Ctrl+!, but what this works out to is Alt+Ctrl+Shift+/ and
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+1; if you forget to press the Shift key as well, they won't
work.

I have 3 computers, one w/ Ofc 2000, one w/ Ofc XP, and one w/ Ofc 2003.

The three-key thingies for n w/ tilde, upside-down ? & !, u w/ two dots on
top do not work on any of them. The keyboards are International, languages
English(Amer) and Spanish (Modern Sort). I use the ALT+ 0225=á,etc. to get
what I need in 2000 and XP, but this does not work in 2003.