If, for some reason, you don’t want to change your keyboard, you can always type in the troublesome cryptic codes. On some keyboards, only one of the two Alt keys will work for this. To type the special punctuation characters, you need to hold down on the Alt key while you strike the appropriate punctuation mark. To type the capitalized version of any of these letters, you would do the same but hold down SHIFT when typing the letter. To type the á, you need only strike the apostrophe key and then the letter a.

To type the special characters, two keystrokes are required. These two minor inconveniences are more than made up for by the ease with which you can now type the special characters. You must first strike the quotes key and then strike the space bar in order to create the (“) symbol. The next thing to note is that the quotes (“) key behaves the same way as the apostrophe key.

When you strike the spacebar, the apostrophe will appear. To type the single apostrophe now, you must strike the single apostrophe key and then strike the space bar. First of all, notice that if you strike the single apostrophe (‘) key, nothing happens. If you followed the above directions carefully, your keyboard will now react slightly differently than it did before. Now that you have the International Keyboard installed, you can read the next section to learn how to use it.

You can also switch keyboards by pressing the Windows key and the space bar simultaneously.

You will want to use the “ ENG INTL” keyboard to easily type Spanish characters. Click on it to change the current keyboard any time you need to. It will likely say “ ENG US” or “ ENG INTL“.

On your Windows task bar (bottom bar) on the very right you should now see an indicator of what language your keyboard is currently using.

Note: you may have to scroll down the list a bit to find it.

From the list of keyboards, click on the one that says “ United States-International“.

Click on the plus ( +) button to add a new keyboard.

Now the form will show the Keyboards that are installed on the computer.

Click on the button that says ‘ Options‘.

Some options should appear beneath the keyboard language after you clicked on it.

At the bottom of this page, it should list the language that your keyboard is currently setup for now.

On the left-side menu, click on Region & Language (or it may just say Language).

Within the Settings menu, Click on Time & Language.

Click on the Windows Start Menu, then open the Settings menu (gear icon that will appear above the Start Menu icon).

Key binding for e with an accent mark