You can add special characters on a PC or Mac computer by using keyboard shortcuts or accessing a pop-up window.

Whether you prefer to use a Mac or a Windows PC, you might think you know all your computer’s secrets. After all, you use it every day, and modern technology is supposed to be so intuitive that you ...

You know how it is: you’re typing your magnum opus and you’re in full flow. But you have some German names or French mots justes and they have pesky accents on them. Now just where was that umlaut ...

These quick and easy keyboard symbol shortcuts will make your life so much easier Whether you have a Mac or a Windows PC, you might think you know all your computer’s secrets. After all, you use it ...

If you buy and use business computers in the United States, you've discovered that the OpenOffice application suite is ideal for documents written in the English language. However, when you start ...

Colin Webb writes with a grave problem: The piece I’m writing at the moment needs me to use a few French expressions. Some of the French words have various different accents: acute, grave, circumflex, ...

Guess who’s old enough to drive? Google Docs is now 16 years old. Born in 2006, Google’s free-to-use word processor lets you create and edit documents in a web browser or mobile app, which is handy as ...

That’s right, no zero or 1. These days, we have a few extra characters at our fingertips. We have brackets, (round), [square], and {squiggly}. We have all the symbols we might need for typing fake $@* ...