Some common characters don’t need help from Autocorrect in Word.
Our good friend and budding woodworker, Rose Vines adds her $0.02 to our AutoCorrect suggestions, especially for accented characters.
This is something we’ve talked about in Office-Watch.com before, but is worth repeating.
“There’s very simple built-in shortcuts for accented characters in both Word and in Outlook:
|
á |
Ctrl + ‘ , A |
|
é |
Ctrl + ‘ , E |
|
í |
Ctrl + ‘ , I |
|
ó |
Ctrl + ‘ , O |
|
ú |
Ctrl + ‘ , U |
|
É |
Ctrl + ‘ , Shift + E |
|
ñ |
Ctrl + Shift + ~, N |
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Ñ |
Ctrl + Shift + ~, Shift + N |
|
¿ |
Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ? |
|
¡ |
Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ! |
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ü |
Ctrl + Shift + : , U |
”
In other words, for a acute above a letter, press Ctrl and the apostrophe together then the letter. If that letter has an acuted version (eg á é ý etc. ) then it will appear. If there’s NO acute version (eg g z etc.) then nothing appears in the document or email.
The same goes for other accents; they all have Ctrl + prefixes:
Acute Ctrl + ‘
Circumflex Ctrl + ^
Tilde Ctrl + ~
Umlaut / Diaeresis / Trema Ctrl + :
Ring above Ctrl + @
These shortcuts work for common accents but not all. For example a circumflexed letter Y (Unicode hex 0177) doesn’t have a Ctrl + ^ shortcut. The ring above shortcut works for upper and lower case A but not the letter U .
