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Enable the Input menu (via the 'Input Sources' panel of the 'Keyboard' System Preferences). This gives access to: the Keyboard Viewer, which can be used to view and input characters accessed via the ⌥ Option key; the Character Viewer, which can be used to access any Unicode character. It is also available from the Special Characters tool
These printable keyboard shortcut symbols will make your life so much easier. The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest.
The post 39 of the Most Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts appeared first on Reader's Digest. Memorize these Mac keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate your computer even faster.
For Mac (or iOS with an external keyboard) use: ⌥ Opt+-(en dash) or ⌥ Opt+⇧ Shift+-(em dash). Alternatively for Mac: Pull down the Input menu and select Show Emoji & Symbols. Then select from Punctuation. If the Input menu is not displayed, open Language & Region within System Preferences.
Some non-English language keyboards have special keys to produce accented modifications of the standard Latin-letter keys. In fact, the standard British keyboard layout includes an accent key on the top-left corner to produce àèìòù, although this is a two step procedure, with the user pressing the accent key, releasing, then pressing the letter key.
Instead, keyboard letters and numbers are used. The diagram below shows the special characters a US Mac keyboard will produce when the Option key is pressed. [1] The highlighted orange keys show the accents available from the combination of the Alt key and the keyboard characters e i u (on the top letters row) and ` n (on the bottom letters row ...
A dead key is a special kind of modifier key on a mechanical typewriter, or computer keyboard, that is typically used to attach a specific diacritic to a base letter. [1] The dead key does not generate a (complete) character by itself, but modifies the character generated by the key struck immediately after. Thus, a dedicated key is not needed ...
A typical 105-key computer keyboard, consisting of sections with different types of keys. A computer keyboard consists of alphanumeric or character keys for typing, modifier keys for altering the functions of other keys, [1] navigation keys for moving the text cursor on the screen, function keys and system command keys—such as Esc and Break—for special actions, and often a numeric keypad ...