How do you make the Spanish "ü" with two dots on the keyboard?

Question

I have to copy and paste it. I switched the language setting on my computer.

Answer 1

Assuming you have a PC and live in the United States (not sure if it's different if you have an Australian, Canadian or UK keyboard), go to the Start menu --> Control Panel --> Regional and Language Options --> select the "Languages" tab and click "Details" --> click on "Add"--> in the "Keyboard Layout/IME" field, select the option "United States-International" --> click "OK" --> click "OK"--> click "OK".



Now, in the lower right hand corner of your screen, on the horizontal tool bar, you should see a gray rectangle looking-icon that looks like a keyboard. Left click on it once, and then select United States-International to turn on the coding. A couple of the coding formulas are below:



Ä/ä = " plus either A or a

Ë/ë = " plus either E or e

Ü/ü = " plus either U or u

Ö/ö = " plus either O or o

Ï/ï = " plus either I or i

Ñ/ñ = ~ plus either N or n

É/é = ' plus either E or e

À/à = ` plus either A or a

Å/å = Alt plus either W or w



One annoying thing about this is if you leave your keyboard coding on United States-International, you'll have to learn to press the space bar after using the " button for using it to make actual quotes to avoid inadvertantly making a ä, ë, ö, etc. If you find yourself writing in foreign charactes frequently, however, i suggest you leave it on because you'll get used to doing what you need to do to bypass the code formulas and continue to write in normal characters versus foreign ones. But if not, when you're done writing in foreign characters, just left click the same keyboard icon, select your other option (should be English - United States) and you'll be back to having no coding formulas.



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Answer 2

If you switched the language settings of a computer you can probably make it so that it appears in your keyboard. I don't know how that works, though.



Anyway, if you're using an American keyboard, in Microsoft Windows programs, you can usually use:



ü = ALT + 129



Ü = ALT + 154



In this case, you would hold down the ALT key on your computer and type the numbers on the numeric keypad. Also make sure that the Numberic keypad is turned on, because sometimes you can turn it off accidentally.



It doesn't always work in every single textbox, but it works in most.

Answer 3

Go to control panel as the Scandinavian respondent suggests, but in regional and language options, select any languages you plan to use - you alrady have English, whether Us or UK, now add Spanish, and that will give you things you need like ñ. Add German, and you'll have a keyboard with vowels with umlauts, French if you want ê.

Down at the bottom of your screen, you'll see EN. Click on that and your language options will appear.

I haven't spelled out every step because youy can get that by looking in HELP on your PC.

Answer 4

That's not Spanish, that's German. Those dots are called an "umlaut" in German.



On a PC it's alt+129 on the numeric keypad. I have a PC laptop, so to get a "numeric keypad" I also hold down the "Fn" key while I hit the keys that have keypad numbers on them.



This discussion gives the alt codes for all the letters with umlauts, and also how to do it on a Mac.

http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t49531.html

On my Mac I use international settings and switch countries.

Answer 5

On my keyboard I have to press down control+shift+colon and then afterwards type the letter u.



I could alternatively select "Insert" and then select "symbol" and locate the ü symbol there.