There is an easier way to do Spanish Language characters on the computer (instead of remembering 3-digit numbers for each character). I got the following from someone called "Jerezano" at MexConnect.com. Click on MY COMPUTER, CONTROL PANEL, KEYBOARD, LANGUAGE (Make sure you are on English (United States). Choose and click on PROPERTIES. On the Keyboard dialog that comes up, click on the down arrow for KEYBOARD LAYOUT. Look for and choose UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL. Then click OK on each succeeding box as it comes up and back out to the Desktop. You will then be ready to type your Spansh characters (accents, tildes, etc.) Hold down the ALT that is to the right of the space bar and at the same time hit your key: Press the right ALT and hold it while hitting a,e, i, o, u, n, etc. One warning: Your type font needs to have the accented characters. Korinthia is a good one. To check this, go to Character Map, select the font you normally use and check to make sure it has the accented characters. For example, Arial has a full selection. Some of the others do not. There is another way to get your characters too. It is not quite so simple. Type a single quote or a double quote and you will see that now nothing happens. Type the e, e, i, etc and you will have your accented character. OK, this tells you something. To have the Spanish character facility, you will find that your quote key will no longer function. If you want to type a quote, hit the quote key then the space bar, and the quote will then appear. If you type much in Spanish, this is not an inconvenience (sacrificing the quote for the Spanish characters). I also have a list of characters not on the keyboard that can be typed by using the left ALT plus SHIFT plus a letter. I can then type the characters for cents, degrees, numbers a half space above the line, the letter A with umwalt (sp?), the division character, the English pound character. There is also a list for other characters that can by typed by using ALT plus other keys for the letters U, A, and O with an umwalt (sp?), the character for Paragraph, and the one for the upside down exclamation point (can't use that last one on MSN Explorer, only Outlook Express. I couldn't find a way to do the upside down question mark. Emilie Garcia Port Orchard, WA
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