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To use alt key codes for keyboard shortcut symbols you’ll need to have this enabled. If you’re using a laptop, your number pad is probably integrated to save space. No problem!
The Option key may be labeled Alt, Option, ⌥, or any combination thereof. The Option key, ⌥, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. It is located between the Control key and the Command key on a typical Mac keyboard. There are two Option keys on modern (as of 2020) Mac desktop and notebook keyboards, one on each side of the space bar.
United Kingdom version of Apple keyboard. The British version of the Apple Keyboard does not use the standard UK layout. Instead, some older versions have the US layout (see below) with a few differences: the £ sign is reached by ⇧ Shift+3 and the § sign by ⌥ Option+3, the opposite to the US layout.
This did not work for characters not in the Windows Code Page (such as box-drawing characters). The new Alt+0### combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "Windows code pages." [a] For example, Alt+ 0 1 6 3 yields the character £ (symbol for the pound sterling) which is at 163 in CP1252. [2] [b]
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On the Common Building Block (CBB) Keyboard for Notebooks, as many 106/109-key keyboards, the Kanji key is located on the Half-width/Full-width key, and needs the key ALT. It is found as a separate key on the IBM PS/55 5576-001 keyboard. On the IBM PS/55 5576-002 keyboard, it is mapped to the left Alt key.
The Alt key on an Apple keyboard. Since the 1990s, Alt has been printed on the Option key on most Mac keyboards. As of 2017, the newest Apple keyboards do not contain the Alt label. Alt is used in non-Mac software, such as non-macOS Unix and Windows programs, but in macOS it is always referred to as the Option key.
IBM states that AltGr is an abbreviation for alternate graphic. [3] [4]Sun Microsystems keyboard, which labels the key as Alt Graph. A key labelled with some variation of "Alt Graphic" was on many computer keyboards before the Windows international layouts.