Trying to use accents

[bray91]

I bought an ENVY HP laptop for college and can’t find a way to add accents to letters. With chrome books, I was able to enable the INTL mode for the keyboard and then just click to add the accent. I’ve tried to find things on google and in the settings but nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions?

[Irfan_06]

Hi @bray91,

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

Thank you for posting your query, I will be glad to assist you.

I see that you are facing an issue with your Chrome book.

Please find the below information related to your concern.

Adding accent marks

The U.S. International keyboard has the following accent marks:
Acute (´): ‘ then letter
Grave (`): ` then letter
Tilde (~): Shift + ` then letter
Circumflex (^): Shift + 6 then letter
Umlaut/diaeresis (¨): Shift + ‘ then letter
Cedilla (¸): Shift + AltGr + 5 then letter

International Keyboard

Use the following combinations to type specific international characters on the US International keyboard.

• Use the Alt key on the right side of the keyboard.
• Hold down the Alt key on the right and then click a, e, i, o, u, or n.
• Do the same for the question and exclamation marks

Acute (é): AltGr + e
cute (á): AltGr + a
Acute (ú): AltGr + u
Acute (í): AltGr + i
Acute (ó): AltGr + o
Tilde (ñ): AltGr + n
Umlaut/diaeresis (ü): AltGr + y
Umlaut/diaeresis (ö): AltGr + p
Umlaut/diaeresis (ä): AltGr + q
Cedilla (ç): AltGr + ,

As you can see, there are a few options for using diacritics and other typographical elements on your Chromebook. Choose the method above depending on your needs, You can also use a combination of any of these methods – try them out and see what works best for you.

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I hope this helps.

Take care and have a great day ahead!

Irwin6

HP Support

[erico]

See this Microsoft web page with keyboard shortcuts

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-to-add-language-accent-marks-in-word-a...