Upside-down or Spanish Question mark in Word
The inverted or Spanish question mark ¿ is available in Microsoft Word, regardless of language setting. There’s even an in-built shortcut.
¿ is most commonly used in Spanish for the start of an question sentence.
This guide is mostly for people without a Spanish keyboard or who only occasionally need the inverted question mark.
See also Upside-down or Spanish Exclamation mark in Word
Inverted Question mark Codes
Upside-down or inverted exclamation is part of the ‘old’ ASCII character standard and now part of Unicode.
ASCII: 191
(decimal)
Unicode: 00BF
(hex) 0191
(decimal)
HTML: ¿
Word Shortcut
In Microsoft Word, there’s a shortcut to type inverted exclamation:
Ctrl + Alt + ?
In practice you’ll need four fingers e.g. Ctrl + Alt + Shift + /
Or use the Alt + X trick: type BF
then press Alt + X