Character map equivalent

The reason zero people find this response helpful is that it's not apparent where someone must navigate to "Open Language & Text preferences." It would have been more helpful had you said:

1. At the top of your Microsoft Word menu, select "Insert"

2. Scroll down to the bottom and find and select "Advanced Symbol"

That will open the "CharMap" equivalent and allow you to insert a special character/symbol.

You are responding to a thread which ended 7 years ago. In the meantime, a lot of things have changed. MS Word 2016's Advanced Symbol palette is confined to the first 255 characters and is pretty useless for most people. Instead it is recommend you go to Edit > Emoji & Symbols and use Apple's Character Viewer which gives you access to the many thousands of characters in Unicode, including emoji if you want them.

for accent marks