How to Get Spanish Accents and Letters on Any Computer If you don't trust yourself to remember keyboard shortcuts, another option is to copy and paste accented characters from the internet.

Unlike accent marks which simply guide pronunciation, putting a tilde on top of the letter n in Spanish actually forms a different letter, called eñe. The eñe appears in all sorts of common Spanish ...

You can change the keyboard language on Windows by going to the Settings app, and then opening the "Time & Language" menu.

Windows adds the international layout as an optional keyboard setting on your computer. Click "ENG" on the taskbar and select "ENG-INTL" whenever you need to accent Spanish words or phrases.

Shirley Moncrieffe (centre), director of education projects at the National Education Trust, demonstrates to Jo-Ann Clarke (right) how to use a Spanish keyboard donated by Royale Computers and Acc ...

When you’re ready to type a special symbol, hold down the Alt key on your keyboard and type in the four-digit code. When you’re finished, release the Alt key and your selected symbol will appear.