Adding Special Characters

Posted on July 12th, 2008 in Basic OS Functionality Tagged with: ,
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In Windows you can bring up the Character Map application to select and insert special characters into documents. In MacOS there is similar functionality and I think it is easier to use. Under the Edit menu in the menu bar in most (all?) applications at the bottom is the Special Characters… command. Select it and the [...]

Inserting Special Characters

Posted on May 24th, 2008 in Basic OS Functionality Tagged with:
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On the PC there is a built-in application called Character Map where you can find and copy special characters to the clipboard and then paste them into a document. On the Mac it is done more elegantly. In applications that edit text go to the Edit menu and select Special Characters… (or Command-Option-T). This will [...]