Is it possible to add Special Characters into a document that I'm editing under 'Preview'? - I'm dragging and dropping the selected symbols onto the pdf from the Special Characters dialog box but they don't actually seem to appear on the document? - Do I need to set up some sort of layer to be able to do this?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I find out what the keyboard shortcut is for a specific character in the 'special characters' window? (10.5.6)
(I know what they keyboard character is for the "�" key, but how do I find out for other ones from this panel?)
I have a problem writing documents in Spanish and it is that I don't know how to use Spanish special characters and symbols used in MS Word, Text Edit or any other text editor in a Mac computer. I have to send status reports in Spanish to my Hispanic customers and I need to learn this before my work accumulates up to a point where I won't be able to catch up.
On a Windows PC it is relatively easy by using a combination of the ALT key and a three digits number that correspond to the letter and then it appears. How do I do it in a Mac?
When I go up to Edit > Special characters, the usual screen with all the special characters does not show up. Is there another way to bring up the special characters menu? And is there a chance that I accidentally disabled it somehow?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Are there any methods to assign "Special character symbols" onto the shift numerical keypad?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
When replacing pre-populated (untitled folder) or selected text in Finder, Safari, etc. a special character is added about 1/3 of the time. You can't see it in Finder, but it does show in file names viewed in Terminal, in URLs (only after you hit enter and Safari gets confused) in the file name at the top of certain apps, or on PCs.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How can I add characters to the list of special characters that come up when holding a key? For example, I used to be able to hold the 's' key and when the menu came up I could press 1 for the Turkish 'Ş' character. Now that I have updated to Yosemite, it seems that it has disappeared.
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MacBookPro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
Have been trying to get in a special character [the tick mark] onto a text title on my current project. Had gone to the special character option under EDIT menu, and added the desired special character to the 'favourite' list, but after that I do not know how to move ahead.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), garage band, FCPX:10.0.9 version
when i add an event into my ical with a special character like a birthday cake for instance. it will show up on my mac and in icloud but icloud will not send that character to the phone, and vice versa.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am trying to hunt down a mystery for a friend using her macbook air (Lion).
She is trying to add special characters (accents, etc.) to words in a MIcrosoft Word 2008 document.
Sometimes she can hold the key, and the special characters menu will pop up. Sometimes she will get the "old" repeating letter (eeeeeeeeeeeee). I tried to look at everything I could think of, but there seems to be no earthly reason why it does it sometimes but not all the time.
The only explanation I could guess at was that it was Word 2008 and Lion (and not Word 2011).
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Is there a way to lock my MAC so it can't be opened without a special password?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Not sure what shortcut i have hit. Here's what happens when i type: can y6o9u7 r4e3ad t5hi8s?
i can backspace to remove the numbers, but is obviously a time waster. it won't let me capitalize the letter "i" either.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
There's the following terminal code flaoting around on the web:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXDesktopLayoutGridCharCount 50; killall Finder
This works great, but only for OS 10.5 – 10.6. So is seeing more than 20 characters in a folder name even possible in OS 10.7.4?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
my keyboard Bluetooth- types a capital P when the cap lock is on, touch again and it types a p space bar puts /have disconnected,
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iMac OS X, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
I am having issues printing documents I am viewing in Preview.When I press (command P) the File button highlights briefly, but then the print screen does not come up.However, on occasion, it has worked.I have all software up to date and have tried restarting the computer and closing all software.Every other program prints just fine, (for instance, in mail, I can press Command P and it will bring up the print screen as usual).
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Preview will not force quit. I installed a back up disk to save 3 photo's on my new computer. It has been saving the photo's for 2 days now and I can't shut it off or eject the disk.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
I have a new printer (HP) and it prints well from most apps. But when I print a PDF from the Preview app it has no relation to the color in the document. If I open Acrobat it prints fine. I can't figure out what the problem is.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I'm running a new iMac with OS X Lion 10.7.4. Whenever I open the application Preview, it goes to fullscreen and stops responding (presenting the rainbow wheel) for a number of minutes. This happens everytime the scanner scans a file and opens in on Preview, and oftentimes when the application is opened normally. It takes about 5-10 minutes for it to begin responding after opening it. I know Preview is a relatively lightweight application
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How do you change the font in Preview?The font the comes up is difficult to read and I can't find out how to change it.When I bring up the fonts it doesn't allow me to change it.I don't know where to change it from.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I've read tutorials on it, Ive downloaded it, played with it, uninstalled it. I have to be missing something here. To me it looks just like a more complicated way to get to programs and things you want. What am I missing? What does it really do? I don't get why everyone is so in love with this program. Everything online I find about it gushes about how great it is but always ends up boiling down to "it helps you open applications faster".
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Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
When preview opens it has a list of the last 10 things I had open with it.
However, I do not want to ever see anything I have ever opened and the list is bothersome to my OCD.
How do I disable this "feature" as I do with all other programs?
Is my only option to set the default program for images, PDFs and everything else to another program that allows me to disable the history?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I just acquired a G4 Power Mac and have noticed some odd screws I don't have tools for; maybe someone here has dealt with this before. I have searched the forums here and found a previous discussion about the main case screws near the handles. Someone said that they are 2.5mm hex, but on my case a 3mm hex fit perfectly. But the problem I have is with the really bitty hex screws that hold the keyboard together. The guy at the local hardware store was convinced that they are Torx, but the only torx we could get to fit, a T5, was rather loose and has now rounded off to the point where it won't do anything. And I am now convinced these ARE hex. But the size is in the 1.25mm range and I can't find any actual tools like that. I know for sure that .050" (1.27mm) is too big. The T5 torx measures .048". I suppose that the simple thing to do is file a .050" one down just enough to fit. Anybody know? There must be some special Apple tool for this.
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MacBook
Pro, iOS 5.1.1, New User
