On the Insert tab, click on the Symbols drop-down button and select Symbol from the list. Select the cell that will contain the e with accent letter you wish to type. If you don't have a numbers keypad, hold down the "Fn" and "Alt" keys while typing the four numbers on the beveled front of the keys. To insert e with accents in Excel, press alt+shift+e, type the letter you want, and press enter. To insert an Alt Key character, hold down the "Alt" key while typing (using the numbers keypad to the right of the keyboard) the four numbers in the "Alt Code" column of the chart then release the "Alt" key. For Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindu, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Thai languages, the language-specific keyboard must be set up. The ALT codes can be used for the French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages only.
Additionally, on Windows-based computers, combinations of the ALT key plus a numeric code can be used to type non-English characters (accented letters, diacritical marks, or punctuation symbols). When assessing Presentational Writing in AAPPL, all Romanized alphabet languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), can use the on-screen special character palette to insert accents and symbols. For example, holding down the n key will cause a box with and to appear.
Select which accented version of the letter you want. A small box with letter choices will pop up.
On the keyboard, simply hold down the letter you want to accent. Windows ALT Codes Typing Accents and Symbols It works for all Spanish letters:, ,, ,,.