Character Palette!
I was a Mac user many years ago with System 7. When I came back to the Mac in the early days of OS X, one of the things that I really missed was the character palette. I could go there and find all kinds of symbols that I had no idea how to do on the keyboard. Well it turns out it's still there in OS X, but not as a standalone application anymore. It is really part of every application. You can get in the "Edit" menu of nearly all applications or by using "Option - Command - T". This is what you will get:
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
8/10/2007
12 Comments:
Great! thanks!
only, i don´t understand how to apply it to whatever I'm writting, it says "apply" but i cannot see where it puts it, and it dosn't allow to copy-paste.
just drag and drop the character you want, or press insert.
Thanks for the tip.
I tried it in Word, but the Character Palette did not appear. I did not find it via help or in the Formatting Palette.
What am I missing?
Great Tip !! thanks a bunch! keep up the great work :-)
Not every application. It works in Terminal, for example, but not in Firefox.
Off the topic but has anyone noticed that the last Apple eNews is dated June 21? It comes out every 2 weeks and I like to read it but has not come out since June 21st.
What gives?
http://www.apple.com/enews/2007/06/21enews1.html
its also under the flag icon at the top
colleen,
Or you could head down to System Preferences > International, under the 'Input Menu' tab, put a tick on 'Character Palette', and another tick on 'Show input menu bar'. You could easily access the character palette then.
Colleen, in Word it's located under Insert -> Symbol. Good luck!
i actually wrote a tip on my blog a while ago on how you can use Option+(key on keyboard) or Option+shift+(key on keyboard) to accesss the different characters. I made an image of all the characters. You can find that here.
MacTipper
My Mac-Tipping Blog
Thanks for the tips Jaryd, Addie, and MacTipper.
I learned that the "symbol palette" is different from the character palette. I apprciate the keyboard shortcuts too: lots of options. I'm good to go.
Thanks for the tip!!
I know that there is also a widget for that and I'm looking for it without succes. Does anyone knows how it is named and in which category it is?
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