But in most cases you can mix and match fonts. So, for instance, special fonts may not have the Apple symbol, may not have the math symbols, may be missing a lot of these things and just stick to the standard letters. Now just because you can type these characters doesn't mean the fonts you're using actually has them represented in the font set. But this method actually predates that one so people may be used to using those. I think today it's easier to simply hold down the key and select what you want. So these are alternative ways to type accent marks. I can do the same thing, Option e, and then type i and you can see it puts the accent mark above the i. Now if I type a letter like e you can see it puts the e underneath the accent mark. If I type Option e you can see the accent mark appears but it's got this highlighted background. This means you can use that key and then type a letter.
If you hold down the Option key you'll see zero change to something that looks like the degree symbol but I think that's mostly to be used when you want to represent a dollar amount but you want the zeros to be raised like 8 dollars, eight zero zero.Īlso notice that some of these keys are orange. Not only can you see these here but also if you hold the Option and the Shift key down you'll see different characters including the Apple symbol. There are a lot of math symbols here as well. So you can hold the Option key down and look through these characters to see if there's something you use all the time.įor instance if you use the copyright symbol a lot it might be useful to know that Option g is the copyright symbol. So now if I want to type the pi symbol I know I can do that with Option p and I get pi. If I release the Option key I can see that's the p key. For instance, I can see the pi symbol here. Now you're going to see a whole bunch of special characters appear. I'm going to hold it down on my actual physical keyboard and I'll see how these characters change. Now where it gets interesting is when you go to the Option key which is right here. As a matter of fact you can even type here. I can also click and hold the Shift key here on the screen. If you're using a different keyboard, say a UK keyboard or a Spanish keyboard, then you'll see different things here. If I hold down the Shift key, and I'll do that on the real keyboard, you'll see I get exclamation point, symbol, and the pound sign #, on my keyboard.
So, for instance, notice the 1, 2, and 3 keys. What's better yet is you can hold down a modifier key, like the Shift key, and the keyboard will change and show you which characters you'll get if you type a key. As I type you'll actually see the keys being pressed. If you click it here you get this Show Keyboard Viewer option. It will show up as the flag of the current keyboard that you're using. It depends if you have multiple keyboards here although sometimes it shows up as a flag anyway. Now sometimes it appears as a symbol like this and sometimes it'll appear as a flag. I'm going to click it and I'm going to see it appear. Now when I do this you're going to see an icon appear on the upper right here. Then under the Keyboard heading select Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar. The first step is to go to the Apple menu and select System Preferences.
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So instead of giving you a big list of key combinations to use to type all these different characters I'm going to show you how to locate these on your own. Also you can type things like the Apple symbol. You can type that pretty easily and I'm going to show you how.
For instance, say you want to type degrees. So you can type é with an accent mark for instance.īut there are some characters that some people use a lot and you may not want to bring up the emoji viewer every time you want to use them. Also if you want to type accent marks or character modifications you can press the key on your keyboard, like the e key, and hold it and then you'll get various versions of that key. So you probably already know that you can type almost any special character or emoji by holding the Control and Command key and hitting Space and then you get this viewer here and you can browse through it and you can search for things. You can go here to read more and find out how to join and get exclusive content. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of supporters.
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Let me show you how to find and type special hidden characters on your Mac keyboard. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out How To Use Hidden Characters On Your Mac Keyboard at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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