You can type Spanish accents by downloading a freeware program at www.onehourprogramming.com
Accents

James-B9
February 20, 2012

ricardo-rich
February 22, 2012
Hola Jaime o James,
Muchas gracias por esta información. El programa es muy útil. Thanks James this is very helpful. Much better than the press Alt and various numbers I have been using for accents. Otra vez muchas gracias y buena suerte con español.
Saludos,
Rich

Oggiedoggy
March 5, 2012
If you have a Mac then can't you do it really easily already?
If you have a PC like me then go to the link below to learn how to activate the Spanish keyboard layout.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258824
This stuff comes with your PC. There is no need to install any third party program, really.