spanish characters

[Jill]

I have been searching for the answer and can't find it. Please help!

I used to know how to include Spanish tildes and accent marks using
Microsoft Word, but now that I use the program on a Mac, I can't figure out
how to do it.

Please enlighten me!

Thanks.

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Tildes: Hold down the Option key, and then press the "n" key. Release the
keys and then press the letter you want underneath the tilde.

´ Accent Marks: Hold down the Option key, and then press the "e" key.
Release the keys and then press the letter you want underneath the accent
mark.

(This should work in all Mac applications.)

There is a program you can use to find out what symbols are mapped to the
keys on your keyboard. If you press the Option key with it open, the
letters on the onscreen keyboard will be replaced with symbols. Add the
Shift key and even more symbols will appear. You can write down the
keystrokes for your favorite symbols for future reference (starting with
Option or Option-Shift)

OS X versions prior to 10.3 include an application called Key Caps that
allows you to explore your keyboard layout. You can launch it from the
Apple menu in OS 9, or /Applications/Utilities/Key Caps in OS X.

OS X 10.3 includes a new and improved application called Keyboard Viewer
that replaces Key Caps. Learn more about it here:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25618>

 

[Gilles Dorion]

Tildes: Hold down the Option key, and then press the "n" key. Release the
keys and then press the letter you want underneath the tilde.

´ Accent Marks: Hold down the Option key, and then press the "e" key.
Release the keys and then press the letter you want underneath the accent
mark.

(This should work in all Mac applications.)

There is a program you can use to find out what symbols are mapped to the
keys on your keyboard. If you press the Option key with it open, the
letters on the onscreen keyboard will be replaced with symbols. Add the
Shift key and even more symbols will appear. You can write down the
keystrokes for your favorite symbols for future reference (starting with
Option or Option-Shift)

OS X versions prior to 10.3 include an application called Key Caps that
allows you to explore your keyboard layout. You can launch it from the
Apple menu in OS 9, or /Applications/Utilities/Key Caps in OS X.

OS X 10.3 includes a new and improved application called Keyboard Viewer
that replaces Key Caps. Learn more about it here:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25618>

!Hola¡

If you have installed International resources you could switch keyboard
definitions and use the Spanish or Spanish ISO layout. Instructions given
in the above article are quite handy.

To access Keyboard Viewer you have to select it from the list and it will be
available to you from the menu bar along with the keyboard layouts you wish
to use. Once done you only need to select the one you want without having
to go back to System Preferences.

MS apps should be able to cope with that quite nicely since it is Roman and
not Unicode Script.