Typing favorite characters.
I chose a pointing hand as a favorite character in character viewer. Now how do I type it? I searched on the Keyboard Viewer using all the modifier keys and it is not there.
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
You won't see it added to Keyboard Viewer. Keyboard Viewer displays the character set established by the current active keyboard layout. Adding a character to Keyboard Viewer's favorites will not alter the keyboard layout (if it did, mass confusion would probably result).
Instead, with the text document open and active and the insertion point placed where you want the character to appear, open Keyboard Viewer and go to the Favorites section. Then double-click the character you want, and it will be entered into your text document at the point the insertion point was left.
As an alternate means, you can drag the character out of the Keyboard Viewer window and drop it onto the Desktop; a text clipping file will be created, containing just that character and also named just that character. Then, when you want to use it in something you are typing, just drag the text clipping into the document's window and let go - that character will be placed where the insertion point is blinking.
