OS X V10.7 Lion :: Can't Get Character Accents/picker To Work When Holding Down Key
Mar 30, 2012
I haven't had this work with Lion on my macbook pro that just died nor the Macbook Air I just got. I use accents on letters all the time and it would be really helpfu. I've tried turning off key repeat, that doesn't help. I tried copy and pasting something into terminal I saw on one of the other discussions, but that didn't help either (although it is possible I did it wrong since I don't use Terminal hardly ever).
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 7, 2012
When trying to install a fresh copy of the OS what key/key-combination would you hold down after inserting the (Leopard) disk, if the keyboard isn't an Apple one? Holding down the C-key doesn't work.
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Jan 29, 2010
I use the Apple character in Twitter to distinguish myself as an Apple computer user. When someone asked me how I got that in my profile I went through the steps and found that the character was missing from the keyboard and character viewer. Did Apple remove it in Snow leopard or did I do something to lose it? If I can get it back how do I do that?
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Oct 25, 2010
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Jun 19, 2012
The Lion OS I am using is not holding its preferences. For example, every time I open Preview I get the same photo and it won't hold my Mail settings either. I have unticked the box on the log in window and updated as well as settings preferences again and again.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 21, 2012
why the sound settings wouldn't be holding? On my computer, I set the sound preferences to play from my USB connected speakers. When the computer goes into sleep mode the sound setting reverts back to the default. It is very annoying. On my husbands computer it is the iChat alert sound preference that does it. He has it set to an alert sound for when he receives a message. We are both running Lion 10.7.4 and iChat version 6.0.2.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 106
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Jun 17, 2012
I was using my macbook pro and suddenly it started crashing... I tried to restart it but it would take too much time, so i pushed the power button and powered it off. When i started my mac i got a kernel panic. *** is going on ? I restarted it 7 times, tried to enter safe mode holding the shift key but nothing
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Apr 16, 2012
When I choose Edit > Special Characters... nothing happens. It used to open a panel with pictoglyphs and other characters.
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May 29, 2012
Recently i found problem with my Mac. After typing " symbol and i, MacOS replacing combination "i with: ï
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Feb 12, 2012
Where is character viewer in Word 2008 in Lion?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 10, 2012
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)
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Sep 12, 2014
I can no longer hold down a key and get the character to repeat as say, aaaaa. Instead I get a menu of accented a's, such as àáâäæãåā. I can't find any thing in the System Preferences that allows my to turn this function off.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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Apr 26, 2012
Is there a way to teach my Mail (Version 5.2 (1257)) to Capitalize First Character Of Sentence? I am on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b)?
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Apr 11, 2006
I have to type a short paper for my spanish class (in Spanish). Is there any way to type accents as needed?
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Jul 8, 2010
Can anyone tell me how to get the accents from the english keyboard?
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Oct 8, 2010
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Aug 27, 2007
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Mar 24, 2012
They show a blank space for all the accented vowels.If I open the same document with Safari, it's the same. But with Chrome, it works perfectly.
I assume there's a problem with fonts, but, nothing wrong with fontbook (checked duplicates for instance).
Last information : it looks ok within chrome on my Imac, but the issue comes back when I try to print from chrome app...the accents are gone on the sheet.
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Imac Intel Alu 24" 2,4 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6), Iphone 4 - ipad - Ipod 5G - Ipod Nano 2 and 3
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Feb 3, 2009
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Aug 21, 2009
Searched and kind of found an answer, but it doesn't seem to be 100% correct for me. Right now, MOST of the FKEYS do what is printed on them, controlling sound, brightness, F9 and F10 only work when you hold the fn key (lower left). How can I get those to work without that? I know there is an option in the Keyboard control panel, but that only makes it so I have to use the fn key for ALL of them.
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Dec 13, 2009
Alright I was going to load Windows on a partition thru Boot Camp. However I decided not to and then used the Boot Camp assistant to remove the Windows partition.
Ever since I got rid of the Windows partition, I've have to hold the OPTION key just to get my MBP to boot even though there is NO other operating system installed on the old partition. If I don't hold the OPTION key it won't boot, it just goes to a black screen.
I'm new to mac's and don't know what to do.
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Apr 7, 2010
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Jun 19, 2010
So I bought a "new" PowerMac G4. I have two already.
The guy said it was running os 9 but now it wouldn't boot. I figured it needed an OS and the guy was wrong. I try to boot it up...
flashing ? folder
So I go thru all hell trying to install os x and what not.
It won't boot to the install CD. I finally got it to boot from my other Powermac's HD with OS X on it, but I can't seem to install OS X on this other HD, but that's not really what I'm asking here...
When I startup the PM and hold Option, nothing happens with either HD installed!!! No boot menu comes up.
Also when I hold down C, nothing happens at least nothing different. It doesn't boot to the CD.
Why is this?
Sometimes it seems to boot to my HD OS X and sometimes it boots to the CD on it's own. I can't choose what I want it to boot to unless I start the OS X and select it from there.
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Mar 17, 2012
I verified the hard disc on my mid 2010 3.06 ghz 10.7.3 iMac this morning to be greeted by a box telling me this disc was corrupt and that I needed to restart while holding cmd+r until the apple logo appears then to repair the disc.at this point I would like to say that I am posting this from said iMac and it boots up normally and runs fine.but,when I start it holding cmd and 'r' let go at the apple logo the cog starts turning below the apple for about 10/15 seconds then the apple is replaced with a circle with a line through it (the cog keeps on spinning below it) it seems like it would just sit like this for ever - after about 5 mins I held the power button, turned it off, turned it back on again and just left it to boot up normally - no problems. thought I would try it again - turned it off, held cmd and r exactly the same as before......
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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System Preferences>International>Character Palette is checked,script UnicodeCharacter Palette comes up blank and goes off. EDIT>Special CharactersCharacter Palette comes up blank and goes off. American Flag U.S.>Show Character PaletteCharacter Palette comes up blank and goes off. Any ideas? Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics), 400 MHz, Memory 1.38GB SDRAM, OS 10.4.11 Machine Model: PowerMac3,1
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