Typing by Device or App

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

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

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

Outlook doesn’t have a dedicated accent button — but it has several reliable ways to type é, ñ, ü, and

Microsoft Word is where a lot of serious writing happens — reports, essays, letters, professional documents. And when that writing

Google Docs is where a lot of Spanish writing happens — school assignments, work documents, shared projects. And yet typing

Mac users have it easier than most when it comes to typing ñ. Unlike Windows, which requires Alt codes or

Alt codes are the classic way to type ñ on Windows — but they require a numeric keypad, which most

The ñ is one of the most distinctive characters in the Spanish language — and one of the trickiest to

Have to type a copyright symbol ©, euro sign €, degree symbol °, or em dash —? Windows offers multiple