How to insert symbols in the latest version of Keynote

Character Viewer no longer has an option to view via the font name. Instead you find you symbol from the categories over at the left and then input via double click, with the font taking care of itself. Click on the gear wheel at the top left and select Customize to add categories to the list.

Alternatives which do organize things by font is Ultra Character Map or PopChar.

What characters do you need exactly?

deepplaya wrote:

None of characters I often need even fall into the limited categories in the new Characters custom list.

What are some examples of these? I may be able to help you find them.

If they are not things with Unicode values, you may have to settle for graphics instead of "characters".

Hi Tom, and everyone else. I've just switched from keynote '09 to 6.5.2 (2119). I'm slowing working things out, but I can use some help with this:

I like the futura font, but the question mark is bizarre. I used to be able to use edit/'special characters' to insert a question mark from a different font, but I'm now having trouble with that. I expand out the pop-up menu and go to punctuation (or punctuation - all). The first row, fourth column gives me a question mark. Double-click selecting it gives me a '?' in the futura font, as expected. I go to 'font variation' - that's what I want. But all of these give me the same futura font!

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,

larry

(If I go to 'related characters', I can get 'double', 'small' or 'full width' marks. "Full width" looks different from the futura font, but it includes a big blank area to the right of the character, so I stick with the original "question mark".)

why not just double click the question mark to select then change the font in Inspector > format > text

larryfromwashu wrote:

I like the futura font, but the question mark is bizarre. I used to be able to use edit/'special characters' to insert a question mark from a different font

Like Gary said, there's no need to use the Character Viewer to change the font of some existing text. You can just select the text and then use the apps font menu.

Tom & Gary - I think that my correct response is "duh" -- I never thought of that! Thanks; that's obviously the easiest way to handle this.

(Odd that my incorrect way no longer works, though).

larry