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Default How to apply accents in Spanish using Spanish keyboard?

I have followed the method of inserting symbols and creating shortcuts to
them but cannot find the reversed exclamation mark anywhere in symbols. Have
you any idea how I can insert a reversed exclamation mark?

Thanks Tina

"Klaus Linke" wrote:

Hi,

If you are using WinXP, there's a visual keyboard in "Start Programs Accessories Accessibility".
For older OS, you can download something similar from the Microsoft web site.

Switching keyboard layouts isn't a good way to handle this though, IMO.
The reason: It'll likely mess up all your punctuation and other special characters.

It'd make more sense to either use the "International" keyboard layout in Windows (the same way you added the Spanish keyboard layout) and remember the shortcut keys for the spanish characters that are already predefined there (and work in all Windows programs), or define your own shortcuts in Word (say, select ¡, ¿, ñ or whatever you need, then open "Insert Symbol" and create your own shortcut).

Greetings,
Klaus



"DTaboada" wrote:
I can't seem to use the apostrophe shortcut to put accent graves onto my
letters while working inn a document. I went through the steps to enable the
Spanish keyboard, but need help with shortcut keys. How do I check to be
sure keyboard is functioning in Spanish?