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Spanish Keyboard Layout Help
 

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When using the Spanish keyboard layout in Windows, most of the non-alphabetic keys become changed. The most important changes are listed below, followed by a complete list of all changes.
 

Most important changes

Accents Accents must be typed in two strokes:
  1. Type the apostrophe key ( ' ); nothing appears
    2. .
  2. Type a vowel (for a capital accented vowel, hold shift, then type).
/ semicolon ( ; ) / shift + semicolon ( ; )
! ! (no change)
? _ (underscore) -- shift + hyphen ( - )
@ right alt key + 2 (the right alt key is immediately to the right of the spacebar)
' - (hyphen)
" @ (shift + 2)

 

All changes

NOTE: Alphabetic keys (a-z) do not change at all and are therefore not listed below.

REGULAR (US) REGULAR (ES) + SHIFT (US) + SHIFT (ES) + RIGHT-ALT (ES)
` ~ \
1 no change ! ! |
2 no change @ " @
3 no change # #
4 no change $ $ ~
(accent key;
right alt + 4 then a = , etc.)
5 no change % %
6 no change ^ &
7 no change & / no effect
8 no change * ( no effect
9 no change ( ) no effect
0 no change ) = no effect
- ' _ ? no effect
= + no effect
[ `
(accent key;
[ then a = , etc.)		 { ^
(accent key;
shift + ] then a = , etc.)		 [
] + } * ]
\ | }
; ; no effect
'
(accent key;
' then a = , etc.)		 '
(accent key;
shift + ' then a = , etc.)		 {
, no change < ; no effect
. no change > : no effect
/ - ? _ no effect