How to make capital letters A, E, I, O, U accented on the keyboard for Windows and Mac

How to put emphasis on capital letters? How to create an accented uppercase A, E, I, O, U from the keyboard? This could be a big dilemma, considering the fact that there are no specific keys for accented uppercase letters on computer keyboards. And if you think that the problem can be solved by putting an apostrophe in front of the uppercase letters, you are very wrong: this would be a serious grammatical error. In any case, the problem is easily solved by using some key combinations or keyboard shortcuts (whatever you want to call it), which make it absolutely feasible. In this guide we will explain how to do this on operating systems Windows And macOSas well as on the word processing program Word.

How to Make Accented Capital Letters on Windows PC

For make accented uppercase vowels on Windows PCyou have to use the numeric keypad (without the latter, the shortcuts below are not usable). To do this, you must press the once Num Lock key (usually a green LED above the keyboard lights up when this key is pressed once) and then you will have to hold down the Alt keyenter the ad hoc numeric code, and release the Alt key to make the desired symbol appear.

• TO is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0183 or, if it doesn’t work, Alt+0192
• TO is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0181 or, if it doesn’t work, Alt+0193
• AND is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0212
• AND It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0144
• THE It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0204
• THE It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0205
• OR It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0210
• OR It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0211
• Ù It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0217
• Ú It is obtained by typing the combination Alt+0218

In the absence of the physical numeric keypad, you could call up the menu Windows emoji panel pressing the keys Win + . (i.e. the button with the Windows logo and the one depicting the symbol of point), select the tab representing the symbols %⟳Δ+ and then select the item Latin symbols. At this point it will be enough to identify the symbol to play and click on it.

How to make capital letters accented on Mac

Making Accented Uppercase Vowels on Mac It is even simpler than Windows, as you can act in the absence of the numeric keypad, using the following combinations:

• TO is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+w
• TO is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+c
• AND is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+e
• AND It is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+v
• THE is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+r
• THE It is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+b
• OR It is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+t
• OR is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+n
• Ù It is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+u
• Ú It is obtained by typing the combination option+shift+m

You can also achieve the same result by long-pressing the shift key together with key corresponding to the vowel to be accented and then complete the operation by selecting the desired symbol via the drop-down menu proposed by macOS.

How to accent keyboard vowels in Word

For accent vowels from keyboard on Word you can either proceed using the instructions we have already highlighted in the previous sections, or through an alternative procedure, which consists of using the Symbols panel. Here are the steps to follow:

1. Go to the tab insert in the top toolbar.
2. Click on the item Symbol > More symbols (on Windows) or click the button Advanced symbol (on macOS).
3. Select the desired font from the appropriate menu and do double click on the symbol to add in the document or select it and then click the button insert.

The table with the summary of shortcuts for inserting capital letters

For your benefit we thought we would include the following in the guide summary table with shortcuts for inserting uppercase vowels. If you deem it practical, you can also copy the symbols you are interested in and paste them into your text documents.