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How to Type Spanish Symbols

For PC Users

  1. If you lose this hoja de papel, do a help search for international symbols.
  2. For accents á, é, í, ó, ú or these, capitalized, press the Ctrl (hold down) + apostrophe (by Enter), hands off keyboard and then the vowel needed.
  3. For punctuation (¡ ! and ¿ ?), Press and hold down Alt, Ctrl and Shift the exclamation point or the question mark.
  4. For the tilde (the squiggly above the n), it’s Ctrl + shift  + tilde (under escape key) and then the n.  Remember, an ano is very different than an año.  
  5.  ¡Buena suerte!
  6. In older power point versions one must search a table for the correct symbol.

For Mac users Users

  1. For accents on vowels hit alt/option (same key), the letter e, and then any vowel.
  2. For punctuation hit alt/option and the symbol ! or ? .
  3. For the tilde hit alt/option and the n.
  4. For the ü in the word bilingüe, you got it, hit alt/option and the u.