How can I type u umlaut or o umlaut using my very ordinary keyboard.?

I made myself a table (in a Word document) of all the different characters you can make by typing "alt" + (3 digits)

I printed it off and keep it by the computer for reference.

For example if I hold down the Alt key and type 135 I get "ç"

Similarly, Alt + 160 = á

Alt + 145 = æ

Alt + 129 = ü

Alt + 137 = ë

Alt + 148 = ö

Experiment, and you'll find just about every symbol you could ever want!

It's not uncommon to find the umlaut replaced by an e after the letter eg Koeln, but the umlaut is still the preferred method in Germany.

About 10 years ago or so, the German government attempted to change all umlauted signs and so forth throughout Germany; the enterprise was a signal failure. The reason was exactly as you have intimated - ease of typing.

Incidentally, the umlaut is quite important as it changes the sound of the vowel; for example 'schoen' means nice, pretty etc whereas 'schon' means already.

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Umlaut O

Personally, I always use 'oe' instead of 'o umlaut' on Yahoo Clever - it saves a lot of faffing about trying to remember 3-digit codes or copying and pasting things :-) The 'oe' approach is the usual way of typing umlaut-ed letters if you can't actually type the umlaut (I have German friends who live in the UK who do this all of the time in emails).

There's no need to go to any special characters or wordmaps. Chip2001 has given the best solution: depress the Alt key and use the three-digit codes. Why use four digits when three will suffice ?

Remember to use the keypad at the right - not the one above the QWERTY keys and, on most keyboards, you need to make sure that the NumLock key is switched on.

Since you have to use the keypad, this probably won't work on laptops, since most of them don't have one.

Alt-132 ä Alt-142 Ä

Alt-148 ö Alt-153 Ö

Alt-129 ü Alt-154 Ü

also Alt-225 ß (if you want to use it).

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Most word processing programs like MS Word or WordPerfect have different types of keyboards and symbols you can access. I use WordPerfect and the shortcut key is Ctrl+W, then you select Multinational in the symbols category.

Here are some you can cut and paste if you like:

ü ö Ü ä

IIf you use Windows (since you did not mentioned Mac) thre is a program which comes with it. It is called "character maps"

it is located under system tools:

Start - Programs - Accessories - SystemTools, and clisk on Character Maps

choose the character you want , click the character, click copy, go back to Yahoo Answers and paste the character where you want it to be.

That' s the way I do it all the time.

You can use the character map for any unusual letters, if you're using windows go to start, accessories, system tools then open character map, you'll have to select and copy them but you can then put them anywhere (alternatively there are codes eg. Alt1234 but it's a lot to remember)

Umlaut replaces a "e" istead of "o umlaut" you can write "oe" like Koeln for instance.

the same goes "a umlaut" and "ae" as in "maedchen" it dos lookweird but it is totally correct!