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How do I enter accented characters like the n-tilde using the Microsoft Surface Pro Type Keyboard?

Anonymous
2013-03-19T00:45:04+00:00

How do I enter accented characters like the n-tilde using my Surface Pro Type keyboard? Alt-164 doesn't work and there's no Num Lock key.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-19T16:04:48+00:00

    How do I enter accented characters like the n-tilde using my Surface Pro Type keyboard? Alt-164 doesn't work and there's no Num Lock key.

    I'm not in front of my Surface right now, but if you're talking about the onscreen keyboard, did you try the other onscreen keyboard options? One is a full QWERTY and might also have numlock key?  The little keyboard icon bottom right swaps between the reduced keyboard (puts nums, symbols on alternate page), a left/right thumb split, a writing surface, and a more traditional full "qwerty".  I thought the full had a fairly complete complement of keys, but maybe I'm misremembering...

    EDIT - just checked this vid which shows how to enable it if you had it turned off, but appears it doesn't have a Numlock either.  Still, you might try ALT-164 in this one, maybe it works here?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQRlZdJJP8

    Sorry, this probably wasn't helpful after all, although that one does give you a direct button to access different language keyboards which might help.

    Not sure if this customization page might help either: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-xp/help/on-screen-keyboard

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-21T18:04:53+00:00

    If you use the on-screen keyboard, pressing and holding a key brings up optional characters, much like an Android keyboard.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-31T14:32:17+00:00

    You can try this on a microsoft file: hold at the same time the control key and the accent you need ; then click on the letter to be accented. For the tilde for example you need to hold the control key, the accent and the shift because the tilde in on the capital letter sign.

    Good luck.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-03-19T07:51:55+00:00

    Add the Spanish language keyboard in the windows language control panel, then just type the key where the n tilde character would be (probably where ut has the :; key).

    When you have multiple language keyboards enabled you can easily switch languages by pressing windows+space.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-03-21T19:55:05+00:00

    true, but when using a physical keyboard it is faster to switch languages by using winkey+space. good suggestion, though!

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