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Old 04-07-2008   #11 (permalink)
Ken Blake, MVP
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Re: using the tilde with n like in spanish

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:14:01 -0700, azteca
<azteca@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> I am using a notebook with vista and I cannot get the tilde over the n to
> make the spanish letter. On other computers in the past I was able to type
> ALT+164 and it would do it, but that is no working. I don't know if this is a
> notebook issue or a vista issue. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

It works fine here. Make sure you've turned numlock on first.

But I do it differently. I use and recommend a little freeware
background program called AllChars. This lets me type many common
special characters (many of these are used in other languages) by
pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character mnemonic
combination.

For example, for ñ the two characters are ~ and n. For ç it's c and ,
For ü it's u and "

I find this much easier than trying to remember alt-numkey
combinations.

Go to http://allchars.zwolnet.com/


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