On most keyboards, you can't. So, in reality, you press Ctrl+Shift+` (which
effectively is Ctrl+~). Suzanne's point was that you press Ctrl+Shift+`,
remove your fingers, and then press the n key. I.e., when you press the n
key, you should not still be pressing Ctrl+Shift+`.
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"pubscout" wrote in message
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How can I press Ctrl+~ without pressing the SHIFT key?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You're probably not doing it right. Press Ctrl+~ or Ctrl+' and then
release.
These are the "setup keys." Then type the letter you want the accent
over, n
or N, e or E. It's a two-step process, and one of the mistakes many users
make is not releasing the Shift key (needed to type Ctrl+~, which is
Ctrl+Shift+`) before typing the following letter, so they always get
capitals instead of the desired lowercase.
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"pubscout" wrote in message
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Thanks for the tip, Jay. But I'm still having a bit of trouble. For
example
when I opened the symbol button and found what the keyboard shortcut
was,
it
would never work. It only opened up some other unrelated dialog box.
CTRL+~,SHIFT,N for example never gave ma an n with a tilde over the top
of
it. CTRL+', E never gave me the accented e I sought. I developed a
workaround
by changing the shortcut key, but the whole process seems a lot more
tedious
than it ought to be.
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:19:00 -0700, pubscout
wrote:
How do I add an accented letter to a word in Word? For example, if I
want to
accent the "e" in resume (for a job) or put a tilde over the "n" in
senor
(Spanish).
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...tSpecChars.htm
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