How to type a backlash on Mac

Which Country Keyboard?

Turn on ->System Preferences->Keyboard->Show Keyboard in Menu, then with the Virtual Keyboard, try various combinations (i.e. shift + alt keys)

Try: alt-7

This in English for the international users :-)

I am using Parallels desktop, but I can't get the \ to the virtual machine

I have tried all different kinds of combinations with Shift / control / option / command - It doesn't work for me.

On our DK keyboard there isn't a ALT button

/Stine

from DK :-)

The location depends on the keylayout you use, on U.S. keyboards they are on the right side at level zero. On other keyboards, you may have them at option / alt level, have a look at the Keyboard Viewer.

That was my first thought, then I realized that he may be on a Norwegian Keyboard.

If so, then alt-7 or alt-shift-7 or alt-shift-/ may work for the backslash

May be a lot of variants, e.g. Romanian Standard keylayout also pushed one of these slashes at the next, option level, which is entirely logical as long as the zero and one level are occupied by other chars. I also think he uses a keylayout, which obturates those slashes and zero level, and pushes them upwards.

Or try alt-shift-7

or alt-shift-/

I think this is valid for some apps only, the ones having their custom shortcuts, like Xpress or InDesign.

Well, well, on this occasion I found that Danish keylayout requires shift-alt-7 for backslash. I activated Danish and found that, as always, specific chars are on the right side of the keylayout, this is valid for many European languages, if not all. As that part of the keylayout is occupied by specific chars, backslash must be moved to a higher level.

Thanks for yru answer. I am using a danish keyboard and I now I think that I found it: shift+alt+7

mikaelfromKøge

The alt-shift-7 that I suggested is the same as shift+alt+7

On a Japanese keyboard type: Option + ¥ (the symbol to the left of the delete key).

For AZERTY (French) keyboards MAC Airbook 2014 it was alt+shift+/, thanks!

The location of backslash (and any letter, symbol etc.) depends on the active keyboard layout. In order to find where is located a desired char, activate the keyboard viewer (in sys prefs/keyboard), open it (it is where the keyboard layouts are), and beging to press keys, including option and shift, in order to find its location. This is also influenced by the physical keyboard, i.e. where ISO (with the extra right to the left shift key) or US (without that key), because backslash is exactly there on some keylayouts planned to work with an ISO physical keyboard.

I was having this problem this morning. What I found was that the backslash character (\) on my keyboard did not produce a backslash in Microsoft Word— it produces a strange character, like a Y with crossbars. However, the same key DOES produce a genuine backslash in Microsoft Excel (and in this window -- see above!). So I conclude that this problem is application-specific.

If any other app, but not MS Office or Excel, is OK, check setting in MS suite, their apps have such specific settings.