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Typing Spanish symbols with English keyboard?

I have a Sony VAIO laptop which was bought in Washington airport with a standard US English keyboard. My problem is that I often have to type in Spanish, so I need the 'n' with the '~' on top, or vowels with accents, or the upside-down question and exclamation marks. At the moment I'm having to copy and paste each symbol when needed from a separate document, which is time consuming and has a negative effect on my efficiency and productivity, which being self-employed, I can ill afford. Can I assign symbols to the F keys, for instance? And if so, how?

Update:

The laptop is not new, runs on Windows XP, model PGC-4G1M.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Use the windows character set.

    Hold the alt key and use the numeric keypad to select the number code.

    Windows Alt Codes for Accented Vowels

    http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/a...

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I am on Windows Vista so, I am going to exhibit you the way you might competent of typing Spanish for your laptop. Click at the begin icon within the backside-left nook of your reveal. Next, open the Control Panel and click on at the Clock, Language, and Region tab. Then, beneath Regional and Language Options, click on Change keyboards or different enter ways. It will have to deliver up a brand new window. Click at the button that says Change keyboards... It will have to as soon as once more pull up an additional window. Click at the Add button and discover Spanish (Mexico). Once you discover it, click on at the + to the left of it. Check the field that says Latin American and the field that says United-States International. Then, press OK. Exit out of all the ones home windows and also you will have to see for your project toolbar on the very backside of the reveal a bit of field that says EN. Click on it and difference it to Spanish (Mexico). You will have to be equipped to kind in Spanish now. To make the letters with accents (á, é, í, ó, ú), kind this key, {[ (it is correct beside the letter P) and kind the letter that you just have got to upload the accessory to. It will have to upload the accessory. That's it. If you do not fully grasp, I am sorry. I attempted. Hope I Helped! xD

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

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