These are the steps you may use to insert this and any other symbol on Mac using the Character Viewer. Kindly click on it to insert it into your text. For example, type ( N with Tilde) to get ñ.
If it doesn’t appear in yours, you won’t be able to type symbols using the alt code method unless you connect an external keyboard with a numeric keypad or use the on-screen keyboard. A hidden numeric keypad isn’t found on every laptop. On most laptops, you can turn it on by pressing the Fn + NmLk keys at the same time.
When you turn off NumLock, the number keys become disabled, and you won’t be able to type any numbers.
The below table contains all the alt code shortcuts for letters with Accent marks.īelow the table has all the instructions on how to type these accents with your keyboard using these Alt Codes. Letters with accent marks Alt Code Shortcuts (for Windows)
But now I have it operating this way with no problem at all on both an XP and a Windows 7 machine.
This happened to me the other day on a new install of Windows 7 and I never could figure out how to resolve it.