Special Spanish Characters with Office 2000

[tacoeater]

I have read a bunch of things about using the alt key and the control key
but cannot seem to get the special accent or tilde characters i need for Spanish typing in Word 2000 on Windows XP.
Can someone help please?
Also, would Office Word 2003 be different method?

[edrod13]

Tacoeater,

check out the ALT shortcuts on this page. I have tried the majority of them in word 2000 and they work fine. The CTRL ones seem more confusing and some did not work. Hey, what do you know if I hit ALT + 164 in this text box i get: ñ

HERE

[jollyjohn]

Thanks for that edrod13.
I had created custom shortcuts in "insert>symbol, In Office 2000, as I sometimes wright in spanish, and I found annoying to insert symbol every time I typed those caracters. The problem with my set up is every time you re install Office you lose your settings.
Thanks again
John

[tacoeater]

Thanks,
I tried this on my computer with XP and Word 2003 and I just can't get the Alt 164 to give me a tilde n.
I do have to go back to the customer's place later this week and he has XP and Word 2000.
Do I need to do something besides the ALT xxx, do i have to use insert key or something else?
More suggestions please.

[edrod13]

Are you clicking on the ALT button and letting go before you type 164? Sorry for such a dumb question but just thought I would ask. I will look around and see if there is something else for Word 2003

I know you said that the ALT + 164 did not work, but how about the others?

HERE is a way that you can use Word 2003 to print out shortcuts. I am not sure if it includes spanish ones but it might be worth a try. If it does inlcude them, then they should be compatible with 2003 or at least you would think so. HTH

I just tried it and these are just windows shortcuts, nonetheless a very nice tool. Sorry

[tacoeater]

Thanks,
I finally figured it out. I have to use the keypad. I was typing the numbers across the top instead of the keypad.
Thanks everyone.
Alan