There are three ways in which you can type the Portuguese accents.
1) Add Portuguese to your computer. Any computer can do so. I am adding step by step instructions below. Please notice that the keyboards are different in Brazil and in the US, so you have to know what keys correspond to the accents. You can also find a picture of a Brazilian keyboard and have it as your guide. Finally, you can buy stickers for your keyboard.
Instructions for Windows Vista:
- Click START
- Go to CONTROL PANEL
- Open CLOCK, LANGUAGE, AND REGION
- Click on REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS
- Click the KEYBOARDS AND LANGUAGES tab and then click CHANGE KEYBOARDS.
- Under INSTALLED SERVICES, click ADD.
- In the Add Input Language dialog box, select the keyboard layout you would like to add from the list available and click OK.
- Click OK to save your changes
- You can switch between different keyboard languages by clicking on the Language Bar button (bottom, right hand side of your screen, by your system tray; you will see PT for portuguese and EN for English) or by pressing the ALT + SHIFT keys.
Instructions for Windows XP:
- Click START
- Go to CONTROL PANEL
- Open REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE OPTIONS
- Click on the LANGUAGES tab
- Under TEXT SERVICES AND INPUT LANGUAGES, click on DETAILS
- Under INSTALLED SERVICES, click ADD
- In the Add Input Language dialog box, choose the input language and keyboard layout or Input Method Editor you want to add.
- Click OK twice.
- You can switch between different keyboard languages by clicking on the Language Bar button (bottom, right hand side of your screen, by your system tray; you will see PT for portuguese and EN for English) or by pressing the ALT + SHIFT keys.
2) Use shortcut keys; to see what these are go to your computer’s Word help and type “international characters” and it will give you a table of shortcuts. You can also assign your own shortcuts to anything; you can choose what combinations of keys will give you the accents. You can find instructions on how to do this in your word editor help or by googling it.
3) Use your computer’s Character Map. This is a table with all the accents. You copy and past the characters in your document. Here is how you can get to the Character Map:
- Click on your Start Button
- Click on System Tools
- Click on Character Map
I hope this helps!
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I have a Chromebook and I know how to add accents and tilde for Spanish. How do I do it for Portuguese?
Muito obrigado
You can also enter the codes, it just takes a bit of time getting used to it.
alt then hit the code for that letter.
á 0225, Á 0193, à 0224, À 0192, â 0226, Â 0194, ã 0227, Ã 0195
é 0233, É 0201, ê 0234, Ê 0202
í 0237, Í 0205
ó 0243, Ó 0211, õ 0245, Õ 0213, ô 0244, Ô 0212
ú 0250, Ú 0218
ç 0231, Ç 0199
Great, thanks for sharing the codes.
You must be kidding…
Luciana, muito obrigada pelas instrucoes. Consegui instalar o teclado para portugues brasileiro, mas como vc pode ver, nao sei como colocar os acentos hehehehe. Desculpe-me a ignorancia! . Uso o teclado padrao para o Windows na Inglaterra. Vc pode me orientar? Obrigada,
Erika
You need to know where things are in the Brazilian keyboard in order to type the accents. Amazon sells keyboard stickers such as this one: https://amzn.to/2GcFp9K They have other options. The stickers should show you where the accents are. I bet you can also google Brazilian Keyboard and save a picture for reference.
Why nothing for Windows10? This is the one I get.
I also want Portuguese keyboard on my mobile so how I can?
Usually on mobile phone you long press the vowel key and it offers you the different options of graphic accents.
but… In my phone there are not Portuguese/ Brasil accents. Many other accents but not the wanted ones :/
Dependendo do modelo e marca do telefone, você adiciona a língua de sua preferência.
No Android Galaxy S6, clique no Settings – General Management – Language Input – Language – Add Language
Escolha a Língua de sua preferência, e adicione!
same
thank you
De nada 🙂
Similar to Windows Vista. Here are the steps:
That’s that. Anyone know how to do this on OS 10 or Linux?