How to do Spanish Characters in PowerPoint

You may not be able to see international characters on your keyboard, but your Microsoft Office suite will allow you to type them with simple key combinations. If you're creating a PowerPoint presentation for a Spanish-speaking audience, for example, you'll want to make sure you're using accents and special punctuation correctly. This will give you more credibility with your audience and lend your presentation a more professional look.

Press the "Ctrl" button at the same time as the apostrophe -- the ' character. Press the letter to which you want to add an accent, immediately following the Ctrl-apostrophe combination. This will create a letter that looks like this: á. If you want to put an accent on a capital letter, press the "Shift" key at the same time as the letter.

Press the "Ctrl" and the "Shift" and the "~" key at the same time. Immediately following, select the letter to which you want to add the Spanish tilde. If you want to make a capital letter, press the "Shift" key at the same time as the letter, to create a letter that looks like this: Ñ.

Press the "Alt," the "Ctrl," the "Shift" and the "?" key all at once to create the upside down question mark that is used at the beginning of a Spanish question. This will create a character that looks like this: ¿.

Press the "Alt," the "Ctrl," the "Shift" and the "!" keys all at once to create the upside down exclamation point that is used at the beginning of a Spanish exclamation. This will create a character that looks like this: ¡.

Press "Ctrl" and the "Shift" and the ":" keys all at once, and then select the letter, to create a letter that looks like this: ü.

Press the "Shift" key at the same time as the letter if you want to use a capital letter.

Press the "Ctrl" and the "," keys together, and then press the "c" key to create a character that looks like this: ç.

Press the "Shift" key at the same time as the letter if you want to use a capital letter.