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MacMost Now 78: Typing Special Characters
Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at how to use the Keyboard Viewer to easily find and insert special characters and accent marks into your text documents.
Posted May 07, 2008 Original Post » Comments »

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Aloha Gary

show 78

Keyboard Viewer.I'm looking at Wingdings can i actually insert any of these symbols like a mail box into a document if so how?

when i have say text edit open i click on the mail box symbol and i get a period and so on.

what am i doing wrong.

Thanks

Dan

May 08, 2008 1:49 AM

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Select the character, then press the "Insert with Font" button at the bottom right of the palette. Check the very bottom of the palette. WHen I tried it with TextEdit, I got a message: "Couldn't set the application font. Please set it to "Webdings" in the application." I did so, and it worked fine.

May 08, 2008 8:45 AM