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Finally, enter the letter to bear a macron from the keyboard. First type ⌥ Option+a (this means to hold down the ⌥ Option key and then press a). Type in the letter you wish to place a macron above. Congratulations! You have now typed in a letter bearing a macron. Note that not every character can be combined with a macron in this manner.
I'm using the standard US International keyboard with dead keys, on which AltGr-Shift-3 or AltGr-# is a dead key for the macron; i.e. right Alt key + shift + 3/#, release, then type the vowel you want a macron over. --Jim Henry 22:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Doesn't work for me (Windows XP SP3) --Zom-B 06:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
Print This Now. Mac function keys. The Mac function keys run across the top of your keyboard. The F1-F12 keys can be used for built-in Mac features or as standard function keys.
Some early PC keyboards had a single key located on the lowest row of keys, either to the left of the Z key or to the right of the right control key. Sometimes it was treated as a backslash, but its behavior varied. It generated a special scan code so that a program could associate unique behavior to it.
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These two features generate a lot of confusion on many users as many machines use a different keyboard layout that the one set as default on the system: one may encounter a computer with the Spanish Spain layout set up as default but also having the Latin American keyboard physically, or the other way around.
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