

The real easy way, especially with names, is to copy the word (with accented characters) from some source document or incoming email. It’s good to get a name or word exactly right, if only as a courtesy to the reader.

Office and Windows let you enter almost any character, if you know the magic spell.

The keyboards don’t show accented letters and it’s not obvious how to type them. Typing accented letters can be a chore and a mystery, especially for those of us unaccustomed to languages with the ‘extra’ letters. Type accented characters accent, grave, circumflex, tilde, umlaut, dieresis or cedilla in Microsoft Word and Outlook when they aren’t on the keyboard such as á ã à ä Ç ç ē é ê è ë â ê î ô û and many more.
