Press (Alt)+(0xxx) on your keyboard. "(Alt)(0)(2)(4)(6)" for "ö". Drücke (Alt)+(0xxx) auf deiner Tastatur. Ä 0196 ä 0228 Ö 0214 ö 0246 Ü 0220 ü 0252 ß 0223 Or install and switch to a German keyboard layout, press the keys Cherry proposed: Oder installiere die deutsche Tastatur und schalte zu ihr um. Drücke die Tasten, die Cherry vorgeschlagen hat: ö = (;) Ö= (shift)+(;) ä = (') Ä= (shift)+(') ü = ([) Ü= (shift)+([) ß = (-) ("Z" and "Y" will be exchanged.) (You can put some stickers on those keys, if it's your own computer.) ("Z" und "Y" werden getauscht.) (Du kannst Aufkleber auf diese Tasten kleben, wenn es dein Computer ist.)

for windows 95/98 : 打開我的電腦->控制面版->鍵盤->選擇語言頁面->點選屬性->選擇德語(標準)->按確定 安裝完後,在你的輸入法狀態應有de的藍色輸入標誌 鍵盤上- 鍵代表ß, " 鍵表 ä, ; 鍵表 ö , [ 鍵表 ü. for Windowns2000/xp/2003 打開控制面版->區域和語言選項　->語言　-> 選擇詳細信息　->添加　- 在"默認輸入語言”處選擇德語"（德國）->確定.用shift+alt切換中德 鍵盤上- 鍵代表ß, " 鍵表 ä, ; 鍵表 ö , [ 鍵表 ü.

Once you have switched to using the German keyboard, pressing the following keys will be typing the Umlaut as follows : ; = ö [ = ü ' = ä

Hello Mary, If you type fast on your non-German keyboard, it can be time-consuming and annoying to learn how to type on a German keyboard, especially on a virtual one when you cannot see the keys. If you use the word programme of Microsoft, there’s a section of special signs where you can find the umlauts and then inserts them into your text when you need them. A bit faster: you can write them at the beginning of each of your German texts and then just copy and paste the respective letter that you need. Or carry all of them all the time in your paste storage: „äöüÄÖÜ“, and every time when you need one of them, paste them and erase the ones that you don’t need. Or in the word programme of Microsoft you can go to „extras“, then to „autocorrection“ (I assume in your Chinese versions they have different names) and program each „ae“ to turn into a „ä“, etc. But when you write a text in a non-German language, you need to be careful. Because a word like (for instance in English) „aeronautics“ is then turned into „äronautics“ automatically. But that’s no big problem, because you find all these mistakes if you run your text on a spell check. Or if you use the find function for all these ä, ö, etc. Or if you want to avoid this problem in a non-German language, you can use a combination that you like and that never occurs in the German language. For instance, if you type „aaaa“, it can turn into a „ä“, if you program the autocorrection function accordingly. All the best, Tommy

You may have to switch to a different keyboard configuration. The one I use (which is useful for switching between several languages) is downloadable here: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ Also, look through the input settings of your operating system. There might already be a German keyboard configuration on your computer.