How to Use a Tilde on a Mac

Video Transcript

"Hola, it's Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert here and we're going to show you how to use a tilde mark on a Mac. Now a tilde mark is that little squiggly line that accents above an n and an a and an o in Spanish. Actually it comes from the Latin world title and how do we do that? Well it's a very simple procedure. All you are going to do is hold down the option key while pressing n. Let me show you how that's done. We're going to type one of my favorite words here, pina as in Pina Colada. Now we need to accent our n so before we do that we are going to hold down option and hit n. Now when you see this of course it is highlighted. What it is not doing there necessarily is inserting the tilde right there. It is putting itself in the mode to accept what next letter you type and if that is an a, an o, or an n it is going to go ahead and put the mark above it. So let me show you. Pi and then of course we have already held down option n to get that mark. We are going to hit n again and there it is. We can go ahead and put it right there. So we can do this with other letters too, pi, holding down option hitting n a and it is going to do that again. Obviously that is not really a word but that's how you use it. So remember it is really easy to use a tilde on a mac, it is hold down option, hit n and then type whatever letter you need. It's just that easy. Hola, I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert saying stream you later."