Hello Allan. Assuming you have added one of the numerous Spanish keyboards via the control panel, unless you changed a setting, all you need do is bring up that Spanish keyboard by holding down your left alt key, then pressing rapidly then releasing your left shift key and you should have switched to that new keyboard. You can verify which keyboard you have up by either going to the system tray or simply pressing the semicolon key that should generate your n tilde character. Most of the Spanish keyboards provide for the acute accent mark above a letter, generating it by pressing the open bracket key, just to the right of the p, then pressing the character you wish accented. Aside from this, you should press insert + 1, the number on the upper left of your keyboard. You can then press any key to hear what it represents. A number of them will have changed. Turn this feature off again by pressing insert + 1. Good luck. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Clendinen" <alanclendinen@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:11 AM Subject: How to generate Spanish characters? > Hello listers, > > Can somebody please tell me how to get Spanish accent marks in Word 2000? I > tried setting tools/language to Spanish in Word 2000, and I even set up the > keyboard to Spanish in the control panel, but what modifier keys do I use to > generate, for example, an n with a tilde (~) over it? > > Somebody posted a message saying you could go into the > insert/symbols/special characters in MS Word, and insert Spanish accent > marks, but I found no such marks. The only accent mark I've been able to > produce is the e-acute mark, by typing control + apostrophe, followed by the > letter e. > > I understand that JFW version 5.0 uses the Insert + 4 combination to > generate a pick list of special foreign language characters, but I'm not > using that version of JFW. Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Alan > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx