typed answers in spanish
My keyboard will not type in spanish accents, so I get a zero score for those answers requiring correct spelling in spanish. How can I get around this? eg sen[ñ]or, esta[á]
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On SpanishDict you get a handy box below the answer box containing the most used Spanish characters you can click on when composing your answers.
For other applications outside SD, you will need to turn on your NUM LOCK key first. Then, you will need to depress the ALT key at the same time as typing in the following numbers in the numeric key pad.
á........ 160 (ALT + 160 on the keypad)
é........ 130
í........ 161
ó....... 162
ú....... 163
Á......0193
É....... 144
Í...... 0205
Ó..... 0211
Ú..... 0218
ñ....... 164
Ñ....... 165
¿........ 168
¡........ 173
Other
ö....... 148
Ö....... 153
ü........ 129
Ü....... 154
I hope this helps!
So you are in Queensland. We spent a very nice Christmas vacation at Twin Lakes resort about a 20 minute plane hop up from Brisbane around 1998 - 99. The easiest way to enter Spanish characters for someone whose primary language is English but also types in Spanish frequently is to use the United States International keyboard. Don't get fooled by the name. I am sure it is also good for someone in Australia. The Microsoft link below gives you all the information about this keyboard and includes a wizard to set it up for you. Once installed and selected, you simply hit the apostrophe key and then the vowel that you want accented. If you actually want an apostrophe or a quote, you hit that key (or shift-apostrophe) and then the space bar. This quickly becomes very natural and fast. I think the wizard will put an icon on your desktop to select the keyboard. If not, this can be done in control panel. I moved the icon down to the lower right portion of the screen where it is out of the way and have not used it since. I have not had a reason to switch back to the standard keyboard. You will still need another method to enter other characters which, as Franco said, are - ñ alt-164, ¿ alt-168, ¡ alt-173. These do not occur so frequently as to be a big problem. I have also found that if you have the Spanish proofing language added in Microsoft Word (at least for version 2010), when you type a ? or ! at the beginning of a sentence, it will change those to ¿ or ¡. There is a selection to detect language automatically which is checked by default. If you have follow-up questions on this, just ask,
This is a good question and great suggestions. I too have the same problem. I do use the nice little box that SD provides but I usually lose a point for speed so even though I may know the correct answer and spelling of the word, I don't always score a 10 which is frustrating at times.
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You might try this also, a great little program created by Vikingo. It's real easy to use.
Install a spanish keyboard on your PC. It´s beyond the scope of a small not here, but there are dozens of articles on how to do so if you just google spanish keyboard (and whatever kind of PC you have, Windows-Linus-Mac etc) Will make things much easier.
