Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Type Spanish Accents in Windows

Today, I'll like to show you how to type accents on the vowels in Spanish. You probably noticed the slanted tilde on top of vowels in words such as mamá, papá, José, María, día and dólar. Note that those bellow are to be used only with Windows. Later, I'll post the codes to type on a Apple computer.

Windows ALT codes for Spanish


Capital Vowels 

Vowel
ALT Code
Á
ALT+0193 or ALT+181
É
ALT+0201 or ALT+144
Í
ALT+0205 or 
ALT+214
Ó
ALT+0211 or ALT+224
Ú
ALT+0218 or
ALT+233
Ñ
ALT+0209 or ALT+ 165
Ü
ALT+0220 


Lower Vowels



Vowel
ALT Code
á
ALT+0225 or ALT+160
é
ALT+0233 or ALT+130
í
ALT+0237 or ALT+161
ó
ALT+0243 or ALT+162
ú
ALT+0250 or ALT+163
ñ
ALT+0241 or ALT+164
ü
ALT+0252



Other Symbols

Symbols
ALT Code
¿
ALT+0191
ALT+168
¡
ALT+0161 or 
ALT+173
º
ALT+0186 (Masculine Ordinal)
ª
ALT+0170 (Feminine Ordinal)
«
ALT+0171 (Left Angle Quote)
»
ALT+0187 (Right Angle Quote)
ALT+0128




Known issues with the method of using cryptic codes:
  • Please, use the "numeric keypad" located to the side, rather than the numbers along the top. On a laptop computer you can activate them usually with an individual shortcut including the FN-Key.
  • Sometimes, only one of the two Alt keys will work.
  • If you still have troubles, just Copy and Paste the required symbol from this page.
Enjoy writing correct Spanish! If you want to learn Spanish professionally, please let me know to arrange for it.

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