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How to Type Accents in PowerPoint (Windows, Mac & Web)

Learn five reliable ways to type accented letters in Microsoft PowerPoint on Windows, Mac, the web and mobile devices.

Walter Addison / September 15, 2026

Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian all descend from Latin. They all use accent marks. And they use them differently enough

Walter Addison / September 7, 2026

If you’ve studied more than one language, you’ve probably hit this wall. Spanish puts an accent on está but not

The circumflex — the little hat sitting over a vowel, as in ô, â, and û — is one of

If you’ve spent any time with German, you’ve run into ß — the character in Straße (street), Fußball (soccer), and

If you’ve studied Mandarin, you’ve seen this mark — a small check-shaped symbol that sits over a vowel like a

The macron — a straight line over a vowel, like the one in Ā — is one of the most

Macs have the best built-in accent typing system of any platform — most people just never learn it. There are

You’ve seen them everywhere — the slanted line over the é in café, the squiggle over the ñ in jalapeño,

If you type in Spanish regularly, there’s a point where shortcuts and Alt codes stop being enough. Maybe you’re writing