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ChrisM15

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December 11th, 2006 11:00

Spanish accents - keyboard

I have an Inspiron 9400 laptop.  With a desktop keyboard, I could do say, Alt + 161/162 etc, to get Spanish accents.  The Inspiron doesn't have a separate number keyboard, and no matter what combination I use, I can't seem to get the new keyboard to do it.  Any suggestions?!  I only need to use them occasionally, so it's not worth changing the settings in control panel.

mombodog

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December 11th, 2006 17:00

Turn off numlock
You will want to invest in this program if you do allot of Spanish accents
 

RoHe

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December 11th, 2006 18:00

If you're using MS Office, click Insert>Symbol on the toolbar. Find the accented letters you need and then set up a hotkey combo that will insert that character directly into the doc. Office may have hotkeys already assigned for the common ones.

Ron

ChrisM15

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December 12th, 2006 06:00

Thanks for that - very useful.

ChrisM15

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December 12th, 2006 06:00

Much appreciated.

JRosenfeld

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December 12th, 2006 12:00

Or you can copy/paste from charactermap (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CHARMAP.EXE if you don't have a shortcut to it)
 

ChrisM15

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December 12th, 2006 13:00

many thanks

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