Using the Spanish Keyboard in Windows (1)

One of the first things a learner should do when using a PC to aid language learning is to work out how to change the keyboard. It's tempting not to bother, and to not worry about accents when typing word lists, but you'll soon find that you'll never be able to remember whether to use the accent or not when you're writing in spanish.

To make Spanish Keyboard available in Windows

1. Go to Start-->Settings-->Control Panel-->Regional and Language Options
2. Click on the Languages Tab and then click on the Details button
3. Click on the Add button
4. Using the pulldown menu select Spanish (Traditional Sort)
5. Click the Apply button
6. Click OK until the dialog boxes are dismissed.
7. If you look at the bottom right hand corner of the screen, you should see a blue square with the words EN inside – this is the default language for your keyboard (English).
8. If you click on the blue square you will get a short menu where you can select ES (Español) as the input language for your keyboad.


9. To set it back to English go to the blue square again which will now say ES, click on it to get the menu, and select EN.