How do I get a "ñ" on my laptop?
My husband just purchased a laptop a few months ago. It's an Inspiron and it runs Windows 7. It doesn't have a numeric keypad, and we just bought a portable one since I do a good amount of writing in Spanish. I've usually used the ascii codes (eg alt 164 for ñ), but I can't get them to work with the portable keypad, even when I turn num lock on.
I just found out on here that if I'm using Word, I can use ctrl+' a for á (and same for the other vowels), so there has to be a similar combination for ñ. Does anyone know what it is?
Update:Thanks, Speedy!
Update 3:Also, does anyone know if there's a way to get ¡ and ¿ in word?
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ctrl+~ n, ~ is the key in the upper-left corner of your keyboard, so you'd actually have to press ctrl+shift+` n
Laptops often have a hidden numeric keypad in the 7-8-9-u-i-o-j-k-l key range. Look for a possibly blue FN key to activate NumLock, possibly in conjunction with a NumLock key.
Then the Alt keystrokes will work again.
ñ= alt+164
go under the tabs in microsoft and look for "symbol" click on the symbol u wantand use it and if u need to copy-paste u can
change you system language to Spanish
If you go to insert -> symbols, you can find your accented symbols there.