Trouble typing accents on Flashcards

Question

My Spanish keyboard doesn´t completely work on Spanishdict.com I can type the ¿ and other symbols, but none of the accents work. The accents & everything else works fine in other apps, but when I try to use accents on my Flashcards the accent function doesn´t work. Any ideas as to why?

Answer 1

This question comes up a lot. If you had completely filled in your profile, I would know if what I am going to add to this question is going to apply to your situation. This answer assumes you are a native English speaker in an English speaking country that uses a keyboard essentially the same as in the USA and that you are using a Widows PC.

Using the alt-number codes iis not the easiest way to type accented vowers. The link below takes you to a Microsoft page about the United States - International keyboard and includes a wizard that will set that keyboard up for you. With this keyboard, you simply hit the apostrophe key and then the vowel that you want accented. This works with both lower case and capital letters. If you actually want an apostrophe or a quote, you type that as you normally would and then hit the space bar. This keyboard will not change how you enter an ñ, ¿ or ¡ . I use the alt-number codes for those but they are not used so frequently that it is a huge problem. (ñ alt-164, ¿ alt-168, ¡ alt-173)

There are other methods that are good also like installing the Spanish keyboard. I think the above method is very good for someone who frequently types both in English and Spanish even within the same document. And this works on the internet such in SpanishDict.com. However, I have not done flashcards on this site because the college Spanish classes that I am taking are tied in with a web site that has excellent flashcards. Also I have downloaded the Spanish proofing language to Office have set the option to automatically detrmine the language. When I am typing in Spanish in Word 2010, it switches the proofing language to Spanish, catches my misspelling and flags them. That is a big help. Word can not quite keep up rea well if I am switching languages within the same document. But that is OK as long as it is proof reading in Spanish. I also find when I am typing is Spanish and insert a ? or ! at the beginning of a sentence, Word changes them ¿ or ¡ so the ñ is the only thing I usually have to do "manually."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560

This is nice - 0080b918, Feb 23, 2013

Answer 2

Welcome to the forum!

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Hi - 0080b918, Feb 23, 2013