Typing shift + Option + k doesn't produce apple symbol?

Tim Roy wrote:
Ian,

I can't say the last time I used this key combination. It could have been with a previous version of OS X or even on my previous PB G4 1.67Ghz model. My present workaround is to simply copy and paste the symbol from folder or file names.

Just wondered if it was still possible to reproduce the Apple logo as a keyboard character under the present system software, either Leopard or Snow Leopard.

try shift / option / +

sig wrote:
In what application? I've tried Word and TextEdit and shift-option-+ gets you ±. It has for the last six Macs I've owned.

i checked over at the Apple TV forum. see the post by Niel. http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10687667

sig wrote:
"try shift / option / + "
How do you hold down all those keys? Where do you get another / on the keyboard?

😉

let me re-phrase that. try pressing the shift and option keys with two fingers of the left hand and hit + with your right index finger. voila !

sig wrote:
That gets you ±.

not on the internal keyboard of my G4 PB and not on the internal keyboard of my MBP. the same for my Apple wireless keyboard.

ah, hold on - i'm using German layout keyboards, of course ...

edited by the Jolly Green Giant (where Green stands for environmentally friendly)

Does your Keyboard Viewer indicate your keyboard with the combination of
keys suggested, will do anything at all given the keys in the correct order?

You can activate the Keyboard Viewer so it will appear in the menu bar;
and also could activate to use Character Palette, in the same location.

If the keyboard in use cannot provide the indicated results, there is a defect.
And in some applications, the Apple icon does not appear at all.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

sig wrote:
Exactly, it's shift-option-k, not shift-option-+.

as i mentioned earlier, i am using German layout keyboards. on those, it works exactly as i proposed in my previous (edited) post.

so, apparently it's different on your keyboard. and, as Niel suggested, it may not be supported with all fonts.

what about getting a beer or two now, eh ?

Just wondered if it was still possible to reproduce the Apple logo as a keyboard character under the present system software, either Leopard or Snow Leopard.

Of course it is. 

Go to system preferences/speech and make sure that somehow this key combo has not be made the trigger for either speech recognition or text to speech.

Hello Tim,

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Can you add a little more please? Did you used to be able to produce this on your current set up?

Regards.

Ian.

"try shift / option / + "
How do you hold down all those keys? Where do you get another / on the keyboard?

That gets you ±.

In what application? I've tried Word and TextEdit and shift-option-+ gets you ±. It has for the last six Macs I've owned.

Exactly, it's shift-option-k, not shift-option-+.

Now you're talking! 🙂