How To Do Spanish Accents On Windows 8

Writing in Spanish

If yous're a United states Windows user,* far and away the best way to type accents is with the international keyboard setting. This does not require a new keyboard or any software, merely rather a simple change to your Control Panel.

Advantages

Very easy to set up
Maintains QWERTY layout
Adds power to blazon accents, upside-down punctuation, and comillas (Castilian quotation marks)
No demand to switch between keyboard layouts
Works on both desktop and laptop computers

Disadvantage

When you want to blazon an apostrophe or double quote rather than an accented vowel, you demand to tap the spacebar afterwards pressing those keys.

How to use the international keyboard

Afterward you've fabricated the necessary Control Panel change, you just need to blazon a helping character and and so the letter to be accented:

		Type		So blazon
Acute emphasis	á, é, í, ó, ú	'	(single quote)	a, e, i, o, u
Dieresis	ü	"	(shift + ')	u
Tilde	ñ	~	(shift + `)	north
Apostrophe	'	'	(unmarried quote)	(spacebar)
Double quote	"	"	(shift + ')	(spacebar)

For some punctuation, the procedure is a little different:

		Hold	As you lot type
Comillas latinas	« »	ctrl + alt	[ ]
Inverted question mark	¿	ctrl + alt	/
Inverted exclamation signal	¡	ctrl + alt	i

Set upwards

In club to employ the international keyboard to type Castilian accents, you lot demand to select that keyboard layout, which is listed every bit something like English (international):

Windows x
Windows 8
Windows 7, Vista, or XP
Windows 2000: Control Console > Keyboard > Input Locales > Alter > Add > Select the layout > OK
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT: Control Panel > Keyboard > Language > Backdrop / Settings / Details (whichever y'all see) > Add > Select the layout > OK

Troubleshooting

If you keep typing things like jái instead of j'ai, remember that when y'all just want an apostrophe or double quote, you have to type a space after that key. Otherwise, your computer thinks you lot're tying to type an absolute letter of the alphabet. So for j'ai, type j then ' and then spacebar then a i. You'll go used to information technology!

* UK Windows users

Follow the aforementioned set up up instructions just choose "United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland extended keyboard." Your United kingdom layout will be maintained and yous can blazon nearly accents with the AltGr key, located next to the spacebar.

Astute accent	á, é, í, ó, ú	click AltGR and a, e, i, o, u at the same fourth dimension
Dieresis	ü	lick AltGR and " at the same time, so u
Tilde	ñ	click AltGR and n at the same time