If youre using a pc you should press: ALT + 160 for "á" ALT + 130 for "é" ALT + 161 for "í" ALT + 162 for "ó" ALT + 163 for "ú" Also in some words you will need this too: ALT + 129 for "ü" you use it in some words like pingüino (or penguin in english) or ALT + 164 for "ñ" niño is an example of the use of letter "ñ". And remember, to add this characters you should hold "alt" while your pressing the numbers or the codes that i gave you. I hope this information was what you were looking for. if i have a mistake with my comment could you please tell me? Thanks Cheers from Mexico

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Mac and linux OSes have some easy methods of making such characters. I'll guess you're using Windows. On Windows, you'll probably want to change your keyboard layout, at least when you expect to type accented characters: http://www.starr.net/is/type/intlchart.html More info: http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html