Typing accents on Macs and PCs

Putting accents on vowels and making special characters such as Ñ and ü on
a Windows machine can be a royal a pain! But that doesn’t mean you want to
go out and buy a Mac because on Macs, making these characters has been consistent
and fairly easy to do for the last 15 years.

First, print these tables, cut them out and tape them to your computer or
somewhere nearby. To make the characters, hold the Alt
key while you type the numbers under each character. Enjoy!

Accent A E I O U Acute (Cap) Á 0193 É 0201 Í 0205 Ó 0211 Ú 0218 Acute (Lower) á 0225 é 0233 í 0237 ó 0243 ú 0250 Tilde (Cap) — — Ñ 0209 — — Umlaut (Cap) Ü 0220 Umlaut (Lower) ü 0252

Symbol Name Code number ¡ Upside-down exclamation mark 0161 ¿ Upside-down question mark 0191 Ç, ç French/Catalan C cedille (caps/lowecase) 0199 0231 « » Spanish/French quotation marks 0187 0171

Example: To input the acute a á (0225), hold
down the ALT key, type 0225 on the numeric keypad, then release
the ALT key.

On an Apple

Hold the “Option” key together with the “e.” Let them
go and then type any vowel and you’ll get an accented vowel. For accented capital
vvowels, hold the “Option”
key together with the “e,”
let them go and then hit shift and a vowel.

For the “ñ”, hold the
“Option”
key together with the “n.”
Let go and click “n” again and you get ñ.

For the upside down question mark, hold the “Option” key together
with the “Shift” key and the
“?” key. For the upside down question mark hold the “Option”
key together with the “!”
key.