Foreign Language Characters, Diacritics, Accent Marks, Computers After typing the code, release the Alt key. Whats the difference between Spanish in Spain and Latin America? These are the methods you can use to type Spanish n anywhere on your computer whether you are using Mac or windows. These two minor inconveniences are more than made up for by the ease with which you can now type the special characters. HAVING PROBLEM OR WANT TO SHARE YOUR REVIEW? First of all, notice that if you strike the single apostrophe () key, nothing happens. In spite of the wide array of possibilities, remember that special Spanish characters consist only of accented vowels, the "", the "", and the upside-down question and exclamation marks (shown above). Instead, the pronunciation stress will always be on the accented letter. For accented vowels, press Ctrl + , then the vowel you want to accent. WHY {titile domain}? Wouldnt it be great if English had this trick, too? For the , hold down the Option/Alt key while you press the n key, then press n again. Then highlight the word or sentence and copy it by using the Windows Copy command (Ctrl + c). Here is trick #1. To get accents on the Mac, hold down the Option key, and while holding it down, type the letter e; then release those keys and type the letter that you want the accent to appear on: For the , hold down the Option key while you type the n; release and type n again. To type the special characters, two keystrokes are required. To type accented characters on any Windows computer, including Macs, hold down ALT and type 0 (that's a zero) and then an uppercase or lowercase letter. Spanish accented letters can be copied and pasted within seconds and it works perfectly on popular word processors such as OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Pages (word processor), Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Press and hold the vowel you want to accent until the pop-up menu appears (it will show you all the available options), then select the one you need. Press and hold the Shift and the Ctrl key at the same time.