#TYPE ACCENT MARKS ON MAC PC#
To type an accent mark tap ‘Ctrl’ on PC or ‘Option/Alt’ on Mac, then a sequence of letters depending on the accent. Typing accent marks can be difficult to master at first but the task becomes much easier once you get a little practice and find a method that works best for you. Some of these will change or vary or maybe not be available at all depending upon which font you're using but it does give you the greatest variety to choose the accent mark if you want something very specialized.Learning a new language is no task for the light-hearted: from acquiring vocabulary to memorizing the complex grammar- and if you’re learning Spanish – getting the hang of accent marks. So now you can actually click and pick which one you want. If I did other letters like o it would do the same thing. So I'll just hit the letter e and you can see it fills the screen with all these different variations on the letter e with accent marks. But I can use the Search field at the top to search for characters that have accent marks. So I'm going to do Control, Command, Space. So for even more options I can use the Emoji Viewer to actually do accent marks.
Hold down c and I get accent marks I can add for the letter c. But ones like t they don't come with any accent marks so there's nothing I could do there. Hold down n and you can see I get accent marks for n. If a letter actually has accent marks available you could do it. This is much easier and it can be used for a variety of different keys. Or I could actually use the mouse and select one. Now I can do that by actually hitting the number key on the keyboard and hit 1 and that's what I get. So instead of tapping e quickly and releasing, I'm going to tap and hold e and I get this little menu here that allows me to pick the accent mark I want above the e.
#TYPE ACCENT MARKS ON MAC MAC#
So using the Option keys has been around forever on the Mac and if you're used to doing that it's a quick way to get some of the basic accent marks there.īut several years ago there was an additional way added that made it much easier to type these accent marks with a wider variety as well. I can do Option e and then o and it does work. For instance if I do Option e and then the letter t, it's not going to work because there is no way to put an accent mark above the letter t. Now it doesn't mean that there's always a way to do an accent mark. So if I were to type Option n and then n it works. So, for instance, here's over n I've got an accent mark. So it's e, u, i, n, and then the backwards accent mark there or the backwards single quote, and any of these will add these to it. Now if I hold the Option key down on this little keyboard here I can see, in orange, these special keys. Then go up to those and turn on Show Keyboard Viewer.
Now these special keys on the keyboard can be seen if you were to go to System Preferences under Keyboard and turn on Show Keyboard and Emoji viewers in Menu Bar. Then I type the letter e and I end up with an e with that accent mark above there. So, for instance, if I wanted to put an accent mark in cafe, before I type the e I would hit Option e and you can see it puts a little accent mark over the yellow highlight line. The way that has been around the longest is to use the Option key with some special keys on the keyboard. Video Transcript: If you need to use accent marks, also called diacritical marks, in your text while typing in Pages, TextEdit, or just about anything on the Mac, there are several different ways to easily type these with the keyboard.
Check out Three Ways To Type Accent Marks on Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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