Macintosh (any program)

Accented characters are “hard wired” into the Macintosh Operating System. The following instructions will always work on a Mac in any program or application since they always remain part of the system software.

Symbols joined by a + need to be held down at the same time;

Symbols separated by a coma need to be hit in sequence, one after the other.

á

Option + E ,  A

é

Option + E ,  E

í

Option + E ,  I

ó

Option + E ,  O

ú

Option + E ,  U

É

Option + E ,  Shift + E

ñ

Option + N ,  N

Ñ

Option + N ,  Shift + N

¿

Option + Shift + ?

¡

Option + 1

ü

Option + U , U

 

Microsoft Word for Windows

 

The default keystrokes for accented characters are as follows:

Symbols joined by a + need to be held down at the same time;

Symbols separated by a coma need to be hit in sequence, one after the other.

á

Ctrl + ‘ , A

é

Ctrl + ‘ , E

í

Ctrl + ‘ , I

ó

Ctrl + ‘ , O

ú

Ctrl + ‘ , U

É

Ctrl + ‘ , Shift + E

ñ

Ctrl + Shift + ~, N

Ñ

Ctrl + Shift + ~, Shift + N

¿

Alt + Ctrl + Shift + ?

¡

Alt + Ctrl + Shift + !

ü

Ctrl + Shift + : , U

via How to make accent marks on a computer.