Tech Tip for Writers #67: How to Add Accents and more

Tech Tips for Writers is an (almost) weekly post on overcoming Tech Dread. I’ll cover issues that friends, both real-time and virtual, have shared. Feel free to post a comment about a question you have. I’ll cover it in a future Tip.

Q: I have foregin words in my novel and need a quick way to add accents to words. Can you help?

A: You can go through the symbols library, but there’s an easier way. Use the Ctrl key + a symbol + a letter. Here is a table:

Keyboard shortcuts for accents, etc.

You probably always wondered what that key was to the left of the ‘1’, under the tilde.

Questions you want answered? Email me at askatechteacher@structuredlearning.net and I’ll answer it within the next thirty days.

More Tech Tips for writers:

Tech Tips for Writers #54: How to Auto Forward a PowerPoint Slideshow

Tech Tips for Writers #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start Menu

Tech Tips for Writers #51: Copy Images From Google Images

Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is the author/editor of dozens of books on integrating tech into education, webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, adjunct professor of technology in education, a columnist for Examiner.com and TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, monthly contributor to Today’s Author and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. You can find her book at her publisher’s website, Structured Learning. 

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