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Typing Diacritical Marks on Your PC

With specific tips on Spanish language Marks and a starting point for other Roman Character Based Languages
Instructions assembled by Tim Kuehne December 18, 2013 please contact tkuehne@wvup.edu with corrections or suggestions These steps were created starting from the desktop view of Windows 8, so you should be able to follow these steps fairly close on Vista or Windows 7 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Open Control Panel Under the heading Clock, Language, and Region select Add a language Beside of English box click the blue options link Add United States-International as an input method I advise leaving the United States input method as well Select Save At this point I went ahead and added Espaol (Amrica Latina) as a language and downloaded the language pack (this may help with word dictionaries and autocorrect) 8. On your desktop, bottom right by the time you should now see the letters ENG above the letters US. Click there, and change the selection to the US International choice. 9. You can now use the diacritical shortcuts on your computer as follows (email, word, etc). For accents over the vowels simply press the apostrophe/quotation key (located one key to the left of the enter key) followed IMMEDIATELY by the vowel. i.e. pressing and e close together should now yield . For the tilde you must use the ALT key to the RIGHT off the space bar (left works as alt did before so you do not lose shortcuts) Simply use the caps lock or shift key with these two shortcuts to achieve a capital. Use the Alt key to the right of the spacebar again along with the question mark key or exclamation key (shift button not needed) to achieve the inverted punctuation marks. A variety of other marks and symbols can also be achieved (many with the alt key). Im sure you can type all romance (and most likely German) language characters now, these are just the Spanish ones I have learned.

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