Special Characters in Appleworks

Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu and select Character Palette. Tick the box at the bottom that says Show input menu in menu bar. This will appear in the menu bar near your clock and you can use it to select all the special characters you need.

AppleWorks does not support the majority of the characters in the Character Palette as it is not unicode aware. A better choice to see what characters are available in AppleWorks is to use Keyboard Viewer, also activated through the Input Menu.

your thought that it would not work because it was in Unicode doesn't seem to hold water since the Show Keyboard Viewer is also in Unicode

Appleworks is an older program which does not understand the UTF-8 encoding required for many Unicode characters and thus can only handle a limited portion of the Unicode total available in the Character Palette.

Roger -- If you could specify what characters you are selecting in the Character Palette for input, someone might be able to tell you how to produce them in Appleworks, if they are available in this program.

Hello

I don't use Keyboard Viewer but always use the Palette, even with AppleWorks.
I just built a favourite page displaying only chars usable in AW.

You may do the same if you download (and install the embedded preferences file) 4palette.zip from Peggy's idisk:
http://homepage.mac.com/pldelise/FileSharing4.html

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 27 août 2005 6:53:35)

Hello

The preferences file was built under Panther. I am wondering if something changed in its structure with the release of Tiger.

I will build a new file under Tiger.
Send a mail to:
koenigPERIODyvanATtele2PERIODfr

to use this “crypted” mail address:
change PERIOD to .
change AT to @
change PERIOD to .
and please, don’t put the true address in a forum’s message.

I will send you the new file when it will be ready.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 27 août 2005 21:12:24)

Oops

Back from TigerLand. Something is really changed. Under Tiger, the Palette's insert feature is no longer available when AppleWorks is at front.

I will ask to Apple guy if it is a deliberate feature of if it is a bug.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 27 août 2005 21:47:31)

You might also find this useful to insert special characters into Appleworks:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13935

Jim

To type special characters I have just use the open apple + keys. Ex. apple + e then the letter lets me put an accent mark over a vowel. Open apple + v was a square root sign. With Tiger this is not working. The letter is omitted. The formatting works in Panther but not in Tiger. Any ideas to help a world language teacher?

It must have been a LONG summer. I should have used the option key, not the open apple. Now it is working!! Yeah!

I too am trying to add simple special characters to documents & drawings:
trademark and copyright to no avail. Does this mean I will need to purchase
another software program?

Welcome to Apple Discussions Sarah

Does this mean I will need to purchase another software program?

Not at all. The trademark ™ and copyright © symbols are easily accessed through the Keyboard Viewer. I just used it to insert them in this post. Open the International Preference Pane, click on the Input Menu tab & click the box next to Keyboard Viewer. After a restart, this will make this available in your menu bar by clicking the flag icon. KeyCaps, used in OS X 10.2 and earlier including OS 8 & 9, has an entry bar where you can type your selection then copy & paste into your document. Keyboard Viewer places the typing directly into the top, open document. Hold down the Shift (⇧), Option (⌥) or both keys to see & use the available characters.

Peggy