Where is the Spanish question mark?

[Fionn]

Can any of you Spanish speakers help? I can't find the upside-down Spanish question mark in the Insert/Symbols stuff (where all the accented letters are)in Microsoft word. How can I type it? Thank you!

Fionn, this works on my keyboard - Num Lock on, hold down Alt and type 0191 - when you let go of Alt the ¿ should appear! ¿Good, innit?

(I have a very clever internet friend who gave me the numeric codes for all the accented letters and also fractions and odd symbols like € and ß.

HTH!

Long time no see btw! Miss your pub quizzes...

I want to know how to tipe euro! and things like 1/2 or 1/3! please!

type

Click the start button, choose Run and type C:\WINDOWS\CHARMAP.EXE

This brings up a useful program called Character Map which shows you how to get any character for any font. I can't find it on any of my lists of programmes from the start button - I've created a shortcut to it. It used to be with good old Win 3.11 and it's still there with Win ME.

½ = Press & hold alt and type 0189
¼ = Alt + 0188
¾ = Alt + 0190

€ = ctrl + Alt + 4

i can't do it janh is like the ~ on the n,i can't do that either

In Microsoft Word, go to:

Insert
Symbol

All the fractions are under Normal text.

Some foreign characters are under Arial Special G - is the upside dwon question mark symbol the one you want Fionn - I think it is there.

On some of the font types you also need to click on one of the subsets as well.

Don't know if this makes sense!

thanks! I'll check later

whymummy, 0241 is the number for ñ, but if the 0191 didn't work that might not work either. Possibly your keyboard is configured differently - the euro symbol (0128) didn't work on my old one.

Soupie, alt+4 gives me a ? and ctrl+alt+4 gives me nothing at all!

We have Windows XP, does that make a difference?

Thats so cooooool Janh!

Look what else I found:

♂
♀
♪

I'm sad....

EH?? Why didn't they work??? They looked okay when I typed them!!!

I'll try the question mark.

¿

Okay, now I rrrrrreally confused!

Try again... ♂

what were they, M2T?

Somebody who posts on a BBC board has what I think is some kind of Greek letter in his ID - it's 3 horizontal lines one on top of the other, with the first and last wider than the middle (there must be a snappier way of explaining that!) - I tried to copy and paste it off the MB into Word and Word couldn't handle it so god knows where he got it from - or how come the BBC software can handle it.

I guess some things only work in some places.

€ Ctrl + Alt+ 4 definitely gives me €€€€€€€€€€€se the main numbers, not the square number pad (even with num lock on). Odd.

I think the codes are font dependent rather than keyboard or operating system. Certainly € is not there for all fonts.

thanks jahn

You probably need the proper software for Greek letters. If you go to Control Panel and then choose Keyboard, you can change the language of your keyboard. Mine's English (British) but I can change it to Croation should I so desire. And if I coud find my Windows disk.

Soupie, I was using the square numeric pad - it does work with the 4 at the top!
€€€€€€€€€€€€!!!

We have a keyboard problem anyway - DH works in IT but is hopeless with PCs, gets really mad when they don't do what he wants (looking in the handbook is too easy of course) - he decided to set our new one up with separate IDs for each of us (good idea for not blundering into each other's Word documents I spose) but only set up the keyboard as English for his own - so the £, " and @ all worked in the right places on his. On all the other user settings we get #, @ and " (in that order) instead. Not having a £ is very frustrating!

Anyway he has been unable to reconfigure (?) the other user settings so has had to allocate the proper one to me (I need it for work) and everybody else has to write GBP now).

Do you understand why? (Or have any helpful hints for idiots?)

let me see...
€

Janh, try My Computer, Control Panel, Keyboard. Click on the tab that says "language". Mine has only on - English (British). Then click Properties and choose British from the long list. Chances are the keyboard for the "wrong" user ID is set to US somewhere along the line.

Obviously, XP may be slightly different to ME so what I've said may need tweaking.

Thanks everyone. Janh, yes, that does work! Great, thank you.Cnr, still can't find it under the Insert/Symbol (which does have the "n" with the tilde on it whymummy, go into Insert/Symbol/normal text and it's there)under any of the various Arial Special G or anywhere else.

Janh, yes I've been off mumsnet for a while. mainly because I was spending too much time on it and had to go cold turkey! So this could be dangerous...One of the things I'm doing now, hence my question, is teaching Beginners Spanish to a couple of people. I did a course at the local college (having lived in Spain 15 years ago) and the teacher was so awful I realised I knew more than she did! And I'm looking for part-time work, so am trying to focus on that. But since you mention it, I did go to the pub quiz last night for the first time in months, so here's what I remember:

Anagram: TENORS MUSIC
Lyric: My love is a kind of blind love...

1. In which language was the novel The Leopard originally written?
2. Which name comes next: Harold, Alexander, Harold, Edward?

That's all for now. Oh no, I'll have to stop myself coming back every few minutes for replies!

muchas gracias fionni just need to find my windows disk

Italian and another Harold?

(MacMillan, Wilson, Douglas-Home, Wilson again, Heath and Wilson again...though it might be Callaghan - can't remember exact timing...)

Thanks, Fionn! V impressed about the Spanish lessons btw - makes you sound like that Victor Kiam from Remington - "I liked it so much I took over the lessons!"

Now I must be brave and bugger off and do something useful too.