Writing in Spanish With MS Word Spell Check and Accents
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If you are living in the DR somewhere along the line you are going to need to write in Spanish. Whether you are trying to write a letter or document or composing an email MS Word can be very helpful. There are a few changes you are going to have to make to the program though like setting up the spell check ad grammar for Dominican Spanish. Likewise it is a good idea to learn a few shortcuts so you can quickly type with accents and the tilde (mark above the Ñ).
If after finishing with this page you are still looking for more tips on Reading, Writing and Speaking Dominican Spanish check out our Learn Dominican Spanish page.
Setting up Spell-check and Grammar-check for Dominican Spanish
Setting up MS Word to do Spell-check and Grammar-Check is pretty easy. Once you have opened a new document look at the bottom of the page and you will find in the bar first the page number, then the number of words, and then the language. Click on this and scroll down to Spanish (Dominican Republic). And yes there are enough differences in the Dominican usage of Spanish to warrant it’s own version in Spell Check.
Normally I have this set to automatically detect the language, however at times I write in both Spanish and English and this can confuse spell check. For this you can highlight and manually choose the language you want to use for a particular word or sentence.
MS Word Shortcuts for Spanish Accents
Spanish Letter, Accent or Punctuation mark. | Type this in MS Word |
ñ (Tilde) | 1. Press and Hold control and shift keys
2. press the tilde ~ key 3. press the letter n |
Accents over vowels: é, í, ó, á | 1. Press and Hold control key
2. press ” “ marks key 3. press the desired letter (é, í, ó, á) |
¿ (Question mark in front of sentance) | 1. Press and Hold control and alt keys
2. Press and Hold shift key 3. press ? key |
¡ (Leading exclamation point) | 1. Press and Hold control and alt keys
2. Press and Hold shift key 3. press ! key |
ü (Diéresis) | 1. Press and Hold control and shift keys
2. Press and Hold colon : key 3. press u key |