Mac Typing in spanish


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Hi all

i need to type some work out in spanish, anyone know how to make iwork automatically put the correct grammar in, for example the accented e and the upside down ?

in word on my friends PC this is all performed automatically.

thanks

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Hi all

i need to type some work out in spanish, anyone know how to make iwork automatically put the correct grammar in, for example the accented e and the upside down ?

in word on my friends PC this is all performed automatically.

thanks

It's actually fairly simple, and once you get the hang of it, you can type the characters really easily in any app, not just word. On OS X, the option key allows you to type in extra characters that are not normal for your keyboard (some greek letters and letters included in the spanish alphabet.

So to type ? you press option+shift+/ = ?

For ? you type option + 1 = ?

?,?,?,? = option+e followed by vowel to place accent over

? = option + n followed by n (i'm guessing you can place the tilde on other letters)

 = option + shift + k

if you want to know the others, open keyboard viewer (spotlight it and enable it through system prefs)

Or you can just play around and press option + something to see what happens.

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Hi all

i need to type some work out in spanish, anyone know how to make iwork automatically put the correct grammar in, for example the accented e and the upside down ?

in word on my friends PC this is all performed automatically.

thanks

Automatically letting something do it for you just sounds like a bad idea. There are words in Spanish that could be put into the same place grammatically but, with an accent over a letter, mean something totally different. Just take AMD60305's advice.

That being said, you can still get it to do some proofreading and spellchecking for you (such as let you know when you have a mismatched ¿? or ¡! pair). You set the language of the current section like this:

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