You can type accent marks over letters in Microsoft Word by using the following steps:
- Open Microsoft Word and click on the “Insert” tab.
- Click on “Symbol” in the “Symbols” group.
- Choose “More Symbols” from the drop-down menu.
- Select the “Symbols” tab.
- Select the desired font from the drop-down menu.
- Scroll down to find the accent mark you need and click on it.
- Click on the “Insert” button.
- Type the letter you want to place the accent over.
- The letter and the accent should appear together.
Alternatively, you can use keyboard shortcuts to type accent marks over letters. Here are some common keyboard shortcuts for accent marks:
- For acute accent (´), type the apostrophe (‘) followed by the letter.
- For grave accent (
), type the grave accent () followed by the letter. - For circumflex accent (^), type the caret (^) followed by the letter.
- For tilde accent (
), type the tilde () followed by the letter. - For umlaut (¨), type the double quotation mark (“) followed by the letter.
For example, to type the letter “é” with an acute accent, you would type ” ‘ ” followed by the letter “e” (without the quotation marks).