The apostrophe, or upper comma, is often used in French, English, Belarusian or Ukrainian. But there are times when it needs to be written in a Russian word. This can be done using a button on the keyboard or a specialized menu in a text editor.
What is an apostrophe
An apostrophe is a non-alphabetic character in orthography, which is depicted as an upper superscript comma, used in Russian in the following cases:
- Foreign names with a comma at the top. As a rule, it is preceded by the letters D or O.
- foreign geographical names.
- Words that were written in Latin with a suffix.
How to print
What are the ways to print the upper comma:
- You can apply the keyboard layout in English and click on the button with the image of the letter "E".
- With the Ukrainian keyboard layout, the upper character is moved to a separate button. It is located where the Russian letter "e" is located. By clicking on this button, you can get a comma.
- You can put a comma using ascll codes: press the "Alt" key and at the same time type "039".
- You can put down a sign on the numeric keypad. If you use numbers over letters on a laptop, then nothing will work. Such manipulation is difficult for laptop users. But if you press the NumLock key, then the digital block will switch to the alphabetic one and you can safely carry out the required manipulation.
- The desired character can be put in the Microsoft Word text editor. This article will give an example in the work of the 2007 editor. You must click on the "Insert" menu sub-item "Symbol". In the pop-up window, you need to click on the entry "other characters". Then you need to go to the “font” tab, put “ordinary text” there and select the one you need from the presented characters. You need to double-click on the desired symbol, then press the "insert" key. After that, the window must be closed. Thus, the desired icon will appear in the document.
- The function of putting this character is available in the free editor Open Office Writer. To put the required character, you need to go to the "insert" menu and select the "special character" sub-item. In the expanded window, the choice of symbol must be noted in the "set" field. You will need to select the desired icon and double-click on it. Alternatively, you can select it and press the OK key.
- To paste into Windows, you need to use the symbol program that is built into the operating system. To do this, you need to go to the "start" menu and select "all programs" there, then you need to select the "standard" sub-item, there select the "utility" item. The symbol table will open. In it, you need to select the appropriate font and double-click on the apostrophe sign or select it. Then you need to press the "select" key. It will appear in the copy box. Then the required character must be selected by copying it to the clipboard, and pasted to the desired location in a text editor. This can be done by successively pressing the Ctrl + C or Ctrl + V button combination.
- To facilitate the work, there is a very simple method of how to put a sign in a text editor. To do this, the upper comma must be typed only once, and then simply copied and pasted to the desired location.
How to put a character on a Latin keyboard that does not provide for Cyrillic
In this case, two languages need to be added: Russian and Ukrainian. In this case, the apostrophe can be placed in three ways:
- In the Ukrainian layout, the apostrophe must be found in the upper left button, in the Latin layout it is the “~” sign. And in the Ukrainian layout, the upper comma is obtained.
- In the English layout, you need to find the key that corresponds to the letter "E" in the Russian layout.
- The Russian keyboard layout does not need to be switched, the required character can be typed using the Alt + 39 key combination on the numeric keypad.
Some advise to press the NumLock button, but the desired character is obtained both with this button and without it.
Non-traditional input method
This input method is not so popular, only advanced users own it. But there is no difficulty in this method, you just need to remember the combination of hot buttons "Alt + 0146". Please note that in this case you need to use the numbers from the right digital block. The upper digital rows are not suitable for this. The advantage of this method is that you do not need to lay out another keyboard. The disadvantage of this method is the complex combination of keyboard shortcuts.
You can use the built-in symbol table in Windows to write characters. This table can be opened in several ways. For example, you can press the "start" key, then press the "Windows + R" key, then launch the "run" interpreter and press the "charmap" key. When the table appears, you need to select the apostrophe sign. To do this, click the "select" button, and then click on "copy". So the upper comma character will be copied to the clipboard. Now it remains to put it in the right place. This method has a minus - this is a small input speed and the obligatory presence of a mouse.
For yourself, you need to decide which way to enter the desired character is better to use. The article presented many ways to set the necessary punctuation mark. Which method to use is up to the user to decide.
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An apostrophe is a spelling non-alphabetic character that looks like a superscript comma. It is used in various functions, as well as in the alphabetic writing of various languages, including English and Ukrainian. You can also put an apostrophe in Microsoft Word, and today we will tell you exactly how to do it.
Most of the tasks that Microsoft's text editor users face can be solved in several ways. Writing the apostrophe we are interested in is no exception. To do this, you can use both the keyboard (a separate key and / or combinations thereof), and the character set built into the program. Let's start with the first one.
Method 1: Keyboard input
You can find the apostrophe sign on the keyboard - it is located on the same key as the Russian letter "E", but you need to enter it in the English layout. You can switch to the last one with the keys "CTRL+SHIFT" or "ALT+SHIFT"(this depends on the settings in the system).
Important note: Depending on the font used for writing, the symbol may have a different look - it can be the same as shown in the logo and in the screenshots in this part of the article, or it can be made in the form of a vertical or slash. This should be taken into account when writing.
Method 2: Inserting a symbol
If for some reason the method described above does not suit you, or, which is also possible, the letter key "E" simply does not work, you can add an apostrophe without using it - through the insert menu "Symbol". It is worth noting that in this case you will immediately add exactly the character that you need, and nothing will need to be deleted, as is sometimes the case with the key "E", as well as you do not need to change the input language.
Method 3: Entering and converting code
If you have read the article presented at the link above, or at least paid attention to what else, in addition to the characters themselves, is presented in the insertion window in Word, you might have noticed that each of them has its own unique code. It can consist of only numbers or numbers with Latin letters, which can be converted into the required character using one of two simple key combinations. Knowing this information, you can put an apostrophe without any problems.
Conclusion
This concludes our short article. Now you know how to put an apostrophe in Microsoft Word using the keyboard or a separate text editor menu containing a large set of characters.
It seems to be not difficult to put an apostrophe on the keyboard, so we’ll figure it out with you now.
The question of how to put an apostrophe on the keyboard interested me for a long time, because by pressing a key with the image of this sign, the effect was equal to zero. And the button for the designation of this sign, as you know, is available on each keyboard.
But when I "went" to the Internet to get some information on this topic, I ran into a bunch of conflicting statements and explanations. Here you and how to put an apostrophe correctly when typing text in English, Russian and even Ukrainian keyboard layout.
But let's take a look at all the options in order so that we, including myself, no longer have questions on this topic. Hello everyone today on the site in the blogging section, and writing texts is directly related to this, we will talk about how to put an apostrophe on the keyboard.
Where is the apostrophe on the keyboard
So, to put an apostrophe in the Cyrillic (Russian) keyboard layout, you must press the CTRL key and the letter "E". But it turned out that the apostrophe sign is printed in this way only in the Word program.
So that you are aware of how to insert into the text and other frequently occurring characters, I made a picture with which many of your problems will be solved.
But this method is suitable when you are, as they say, a spelling cynic. If not, and the text does not require the correct placement of signs, then you can put an upper comma instead of an apostrophe. To do this, we type ALT + 0146- on the keyboard and as a result we get such a squiggle - ’.
They also write that you can press the CTRL (control) key and double-press the key with the letter “Ё”, and an apostrophe will also appear, but this option does not work on a stationary keyboard, much less on a laptop.
The upper comma or apostrophe, as it is properly called, is often used in English, French, Ukrainian and Belarusian, but there are times when it needs to be written in the Russian word as well. This can be done using the keyboard buttons or a special text editor menu.
An apostrophe is a non-alphabetic spelling symbol in the form of an upper superscript comma, which is used in Russian in the following cases:- foreign proper names with an apostrophe, most often it is preceded by the letters "D" and "O" (for example, D'artagnan, O'Connor);
- foreign geographical names (for example, Côte d'Or);
- words written in Latin with a Russian suffix (E-mail).
Now you know how to put the upper comma in various ways, and you can choose the one that is most convenient for you. And to make the job easier, you can print it only once, and then just copy and paste it to the right place.
How to put an apostrophe on the keyboard?
- I switch to English mode and press the letter e.
- you can also put an apostrophe, also switching to English, I press the letter, though the apostrophe is at some angle.
It is quite easy to put an apostrophe on the keyboard, although I have not seen such words in Russian. But in French there are plenty of words with an apostrophe. Take, for example, the hero of Dumas d'Artagnan or the name of the African country Côte d'Ivoire.
In order to put such a sign, just press Alt+39 or in the English layout, just press the letter E.
Just press the appropriate key. Apostrophe on the same as E, only on the English layout. Moreover, in lower case, you don’t even need to press the shift.
I wanted to write an answer about the protagonist of the novel by Alexandre Dumas about the three musketeers and ran into a problem, there is no apostrophe and I can’t find it. With the help of hints, I found an apostrophe on the Russian keyboard.
To do this, you do not need to switch anywhere, just press the Alt and without releasing this key on the numeric keypad layout, which is located on the right side of the keyboard in the form of calculator buttons, I press two numbers 3 and 9. Now I will demonstrate what I did.
The role of Dartagnan glorified Mikhail Boyarsky. As you can see, I no longer have problems with the apostrophe, but through E The apostrophe doesn't work for me.
When I need an apostrophe sign, I switch to the Latin keyboard layout: in it this sign is located next to the letter E. In other ways, you can get an apostrophe from text copied from the Internet or pasted from the Word character table.
My keyboard is generally Latin, which did not provide for Cyrillic. I just added both languages (both Russian and Ukrainian), I type blindly, and all squiggles I find by poking. I can find an apostrophe in three ways:
- In the Ukrainian layout, the apostrophe was found in the top left button, where it is on the Latin layout, but it turns out with the Ukrainian one. In the attached photo, this button is marked with a red circle.
In the English layout, the key, which in Russian corresponds to the letter uh. It is circled in green in the picture.
In the Russian layout, without switching anywhere, we get an apostrophe with the key combination Alt + the number 39 on the numeric keypad. Moreover, experienced people advise first pressing the NumLock button, but I did it both with and without the button pressed. This combination is shown in blue circles in the illustration, and the NumLock button is highlighted in pink, and on my keyboard it is located in a different place, to the right of the Backspace button, and I emphasize once again that I don’t need it at all.
We look at the picture (the photo of the keyboard was found on the Internet, this is not my keyboard):
- Switch to the English layout and press the key on which the Russian letter E is located.
In order to put an apostrophe on the keyboard, for example, Joan of Arc.
I do for this:
An apostrophe is a comma at the top, this spelling mark is used in place of a missing letter, for example in the word: dArc, DArtagnan
An apostrophe can be put using the keyboard; you need to translate e into English and press the button where the Russian letter is -E-
An apostrophe, or a comma on top, can be put in a simple way:
Usually, you need to put a comma on top to indicate soft consonants or when writing, for example, French names or surnames. And so it happened: D'Artagnan.
How to put a comma at the top on the keyboard?
A comma at the top, or an apostrophe, is an icon at the top of a letter, looks like this, for example.
Serves to indicate softness, instead of the letter ъ, etc.
In order to write this icon, we press the ALT key on the keyboard and on the side panel of the keyboard with numbers we type the combination of numbers 039, we get.
I usually choose the button with the letter, it's in the top right corner. To get an apostrophe - an icon that looks like a comma, only at the top -, just translate the keyboard into Latin. By the way, I sometimes use it instead of a solid sign, out of habit.
To type on the keyboard, place the cursor on it, then hold down the Alt button and type the numbers 039 on the right side of the keyboard (calculator). However, this method is not suitable for laptops that do not have an additional department for working with numbers.
