How to put stress on a letter in Word – 3 ways

In the process of working in the Word test editor, which is included in the Microsoft Office suite, some users need to put emphasis on the Word. Often this is necessary for the correct perception of a word that has several different meanings.

By default, when typing in MS Word, the letter is not accented. But, there are situations when you need to know how to put stress in the Word in order to place the correct accents in a word or sentence.

Some words in Russian are homographs, words with the same spelling, but having different pronunciations due to differences in stress. Here is an example of similar words: “castle” or “castle”. These words consist of the same letters, but they mean completely different concepts due to the correctly placed stress in the syllables of the word.

Some users highlight the letter in bold, enter a capital letter in uppercase, in the place where the accent should have been over the letter in Word. This is the wrong way to solve the problem, you must use the correct option: insert stress in words when working in Word.

In order for the reader of a text document to immediately understand the meaning of words that can be interpreted in different ways, it is necessary to put an accent mark over the corresponding letter in the Word. In this case, the meaning of this word will immediately become clear, because the accent was correctly highlighted in the text – the accent mark over the letter in the document created in Word.

In orthography, when entering text into a document, two diacritical marks are mainly used:

• Acute Accent (Akut) – acute stress used in Russian and some other languages.
• Grave Accent is a back accent used in some foreign languages.

Sometimes, Gravis is used as a secondary stress in compound Russian words.

You can put stress in words typed in the Word in different ways:

• By inserting a character from the built-in character table.
• Inserting a character code using the keyboard keys.
• Setting the accent with a macro.

In this guide, we will analyze how to emphasize a letter in Word in several ways in the versions of the program: MS Word 2019, MS Word 2016, MS Word 2013, MS Word 2010, MS Word 2007. After reading the article, you can decide how to stress in Word in the most convenient way for you.

How to put stress in Word – 1 way

First, we will look at how to put an accent on a letter in a word in Word using the insertion of the corresponding character. The word processor Word has a table of characters that can be inserted into the text of the document as needed. We need a diacritical accent used in Russian.

Go through the following steps:

1. In an open Word document, position the mouse cursor immediately after the letter you want to emphasize.
2. Open the “Insert” tab.
3. In the right corner of the menu bar, in the “Symbols” group, click on the “Symbol” button.
4. In the context menu, select “More symbols …”.
5. A new “Symbol” window will open with a symbol table.
6. In the “Set” field, select “combined diacritics”.
7. In the character table, select the accent mark to insert into Word. Click the mouse cursor in the table on the accent mark used in Russian.

You can do without choosing a set and the desired character if you enter the code in the “Character code” field: “0301” – for a Russian accent symbol or “0300” – for a foreign one.

8. Click on the “Insert” button.
9. Close the symbol table.

As a result of our actions, we have set the accent on a letter in a text document created in Word.

The next time you don’t need to search for the symbol in the table, because it will automatically be added to the symbol context menu.

See how to emphasize a letter in Word after using the character table for the first time:

1. Click with the mouse pointer after the letter you want to emphasize.
2. Enter the “Insert” tab.
3. In the “Symbols” group, click on the “Symbol” button.
4. In the drop-down menu, click on the accent symbol that was added there automatically after using it for the first time.

This is not the easiest way to put stress in a word created in Word. There is an easier option, which you can read about later in the article.

How to put an accent in Word using the keyboard – 2 way

In another way, the combination of keys on the keyboard will help us set the stress in the Word. After pressing a certain key combination, various characters are added to the text of the document, including an accent mark.

Now we will see how to make an accent in Word using the keyboard:

1. Open a Microsoft Word document.
2. Click with the mouse pointer after the letter you want to place an accent over.

You can use another option: first type the entire word or sentence, and then position the mouse cursor at the desired location to insert the accent.

3. Immediately after the letter, enter the numerical value of the accent mark code: “0301”, and then press the “Alt” + “X” keys.
4. An accent has appeared above the letter, you can continue entering the next letters of the word further.

To insert the Grave Accent sign, use the code: “0300” with the keys “Alt” + “X”.

In the Windows operating system, you can additionally use another method: you need to hold down the “Alt” key, and then type “0769” on the numeric keypad. To accent Gravis, use the “Alt” key and the keys of the number block “0768”.

You can learn for yourself which keyboard shortcuts are used to insert certain characters into the text of a Word document. To do this, open the “Symbol” window, select the required symbol in the table. In the “Keyboard shortcut:” field, the keyboard keys used to insert this character are indicated.

This method is easier than inserting a symbol, because you do not need to go to other tabs of the program interface and insert symbols. But, is there another similar simple option for inserting accents into the text of a document? Check out another way to insert accents.

How to put an emphasis on a letter in Word using a macro – 3 way

You can create a macro with which automatic actions will be performed to insert stress in words from the text of a Word document.

Macro (Macro command) is a software algorithm of recorded actions for automating routine processes. You record your actions once in the process of performing a certain operation. In the future, you will be able to run these actions in the application, they will be performed automatically.

To create a macro that will insert an accent over a word in Word, follow these steps:

1. In the Word program window, click the “View” tab.
2. In the Macros group, click on the arrow next to the Macros button.
3. Select “Record Macro…”.
4. In the “Record macro” window, assign a friendly name to the macro, set the access rights of this macro to document types.
5. In the “Assign macro” section, select one of the options: “button” or “keys”. It is better to select a button so that you do not use keys to run the macro in order to avoid conflicts if these keys are assigned to perform other actions on the computer.
6. Click on the appropriate button. In this case, we are assigning a macro to a button.
7. This will open the Word Options window.
8. In the Customize Quick Access Toolbar area, select the macro, click the Add button, and then click the OK button.
9. Follow the steps in the first instruction to add an accent using the character table, or use the second instruction to add an accent code to the macro you create.

10. After completing all the steps, click on the arrow on the “Macros” button, and select “Stop Recording” in the context menu.
11. Now, to insert an accent, you need to click on the icon located on the quick access toolbar.

Article Conclusions

When typing a test in a document, some users are interested in the question of how to emphasize a letter in Word in order to emphasize the correct meaning for a homograph word or emphasize a particular word. In the Word text editor, users can emphasize letters in a word in several ways: by inserting the appropriate character from the character table, by entering a character code, or by using a previously created macro to perform this operation.