Methods for inputting special characters on Mac

Methods for inputting special characters on Mac
No matter what industry you are in, as long as you need a computer, it will inevitably involve entering some special characters except common punctuation marks. In Mac, how can we quickly enter Some uncommon special characters? I want to teach you several ways today!
Hold down a key
In the English input state, you can press and hold some audio keys on the keyboard to add a note to the letter or temporarily enter some language with a note symbol. For example, if you press the E key, the selector box shown in appears.

In addition to the E key, you can also use long-pressed letters to add the phonetic symbols A, C, I, L, N, O, S, U, Y, and Z. However, the disadvantage of using this method is that you cannot press it to input it quickly.
Use the keyboard display program
Some special characters are more special, such as the apple Logo "delimiter" and the English name separator. To learn how to input these keys, you can start the keyboard display program ".
To start the "keyboard display program", you must first make sure that the check box before "display keyboard and character display program" on the menu bar is checked in the keyboard preference settings. Click the input method icon in the menu bar and click "show keyboard display program.

Then, a virtual keyboard is displayed and corresponds to your physical keyboard. Your buttons on the keyboard are displayed on the "keyboard display program. On the surface, it is no different from the current keyboard.
However, if you hold down some special function keys, such as Shift, Command, and Option, you will find that the characters corresponding to each key on the Screen Keyboard change. For example, when you press shift + option, the interface shown in is displayed.

In this case, if you want to enter the Token, you can press K directly. In fact, you do not need to open the keyboard display program to input special symbols. You only need to remember the corresponding shortcut keys. For example:

• Shift + option + k
• · = Shift + option + 9
• ‰ = Shift + option + r
• € = Shift + option + 2

You can try to press the shortcut key on your Mac and then you will understand it. You can remember their shortcut keys for some special symbols you often enter.
Use the character display program
Character display program: similar to a keyboard display program. However, character display programs are often used to enter more special characters. For example♠♣♥♦♤♧♡♢☂☀☃✎☯And so on. The special characters in the bread are very full. Basically, all the characters that can be directly displayed by the system are included in this section.
The [character display program] is also very convenient. Simply press the shortcut key command + option + T to bring up the window, and then you can double-click the special characters in the window to input it.
If you are proficient in the above three skills and can remember some special characters that you often use, it will be very convenient at work. I hope this article will help you.