In Snow Leopard and previous systems, all one had to do upon choosing under the EDIT Menu, Special Characters, insert it similar to what one does in MSWord. However, in Lion, there is another procedure that I learned when I called in to Tech Support. Unfortunately, I have forgotten it.
Need help as I use this feature consistently especially for the French accents.
Thanks!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
From the Edit Menu of Mail.
From the Edit Menu of Mail.
In Lion there is a quick way to access special characters - just press and hold down the key for the base character, and in a second or so a popup will appear showing the available special characters based on that letter. Works with Shift, too, for capitals.
For example -
Holding down the e key presents -
Holding down the c key presents -
Holding down shift-c presents -
To enter the desired special character, either -
• click the one you want in the popup
• press the number key shown underneath the character in the popup.
I don't like this....I LOVE it!! Thanks a million kananaskis, you have made my life 1000 times easier with this tip! 🙂
Hi, there Vixen82.
So glad to hear that my query was also helpful to you. Great way to share the knowledge when one is out there in cyberspace trying to sort out all the technology we have to access every so often. I love how this works. Such a time saver too! No more searching the Special Characters menu to find accents.
Happy typing!😉
Inserting Special Characters in MacMail
