How to Insert Spanish Accents

Keyboard Commands for Spanish Accents

Use the following keyboard commands to input Spanish characters into your writing.  The commands will work with all MS Office applications, Netscape and Mozilla mail.

ALT + 160 á

ALT + 162 ó

ALT + 144 É

ALT + 233 Ú

 

ALT + 161 í

ALT + 129 ü

ALT + 165 Ñ

ALT + 168 ¿

 

 

ALT + 130 é

ALT + 163 ú

ALT + 214 Í

ALT + 154 Ü

 

ALT + 164 ñ

ALT + 181 Á

ALT + 224 Ó

ALT + 173 ¡

 

For MAC use the following:

To get accents on the Mac, hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on:

To get accents on the Mac, hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on:

á = Opt + e, then a
é = Opt + e, then e
í = Opt + e, then i
ó = Opt + e, then o
ú = Opt + e, then u
For the ñ, hold down the Option key while you type the n; release and type n again.

ñ = Opt + n, then n
To place the diaeresis over the u, hold down the Option key while pressing the u key; release and type u again.

ü = Opt + u, then u
The inverted punctuation marks are achieved as follows:

¡ = Opt + 1
¿ Opt + shift + ?

 

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