Look for the keyboard icon on the right-hand side of your taskbar, bring up the on-screen keyboard, and hold down (or left-click and hold) your cursor over the letter you’d like to accent.

Windows 7 and Microsoft Word allow you to insert symbols above letters without using ribbon commands. For example, work with a Windows PC keyboard to apply keyboard combinations that insert ...

Enter any symbol or special character without switching to a different keyboard layout.

In order to make all the myriad characters available on a standard keyboard, the font designers created codes that allow all of the symbols to be accessed with just a few keystrokes.