Hi Amber, Here is an additional method for doing accent marks. Word actually has hot-keys for making them. For acute accents you do ctrl-apostrophe, release that combination, and then type the letter in question. For the N tilde, type ctrl-shift-grave, release that, then type n. The n-tilde doesn't always work, so if it doesn't the easiest thing to do would be to use the insert-4 command and pick it from there, or use the ascii characters as Alison suggested. Hth, Kellie