All I Wanted was an Umlaut

Maybe Microsoft has it out for me now.  I was typing a tiny bit of Spanish for work (quoting one of our Spanish speaking families who said what I can only hope translates as nice things).  I was trying to get one of those wavy things over the n that makes it a "nya" sound.  For the life of me, I could not find the nya.  I found Greek letters, sanskrit, webdings, more math symbols than one could even dream of (the "quadratic logarythmic derivative" symbol is a bell, squeezed into the Greek letter phi, turned on it's side and stretched by 14 degrees*); cyrillic symbols (from Cyrillia); combining diacritical marks**; and even Hebrew.  But no "nya."

One of my staff members who speaks Spanish told me I had to change my keyboard.  So I went out and bought a new one.  Still no nya.  She then explained it wasn't the actual keyboard, but the keyboard settings.  That would have been helpful $45 ago.  She showed me how to change from "English" to another language.  For the Spanish keyboard, there were 32 different choices - Mexican, Bolivian, Spain-ish, Ecuadorian, El Salvadorian, and so on.  I chose Argentinian because I like their wine. 

Wa-la***!  I found the nya.  Problem solved.  Except when I closed out Word and opened up Outlook, Miscrosoft had decided that I was a native Argentinian Spanish speaker.  My calendar listed my "trabajos" due on "miercoles."  !Hijo de una perra!  And random meetings showed up with names like "gaucho" and "malbec." 

I have an answer for Microsoft's "what else can I do for you?"  Give me my English back!!!


* for the record, this is completely made up.  It could actually be 17 degrees
** for the record, this is an actual set of letter.  Don't be diacritical!
***I realize this is not even close to how you spell this. I had no interest in flirting with a French keyboard