Math Symbols?

Hi Ian,

.g. the symbol for "DIVIDE BY"

You mean like this ---> ÷

Option(Alt)+/ will get you there. If you fire up Keyboard Viewer you'll be able to see what symbols you can get when pressing a combination of keys e.g Option+key, Option Shiftkey etc etc

RD

Hi again Ian,

Hehe... what you (inadvertantly) did is enable the Zoom feature. You did this by pressing Command(Apple) Option(Alt)8. Pressing that key combination again will disable the Zoom effect.

Do the following:

1. From the menubar select the International menu (it's the one with the flag on the right hand side of the menubar)
2. Select Show Keyboard Viewer

If you do not see the Keyboard Viewer in the International menu simply select Open International... and, from the Input Menu tab, tick Keyboard Viewer. It will now be visible from the International menu.

That's it. You'll now see the Keyboard Viewer and by pressing either Shift or Option(alt) or a combination of those keys you'll see different sympols appear on the keyboard viewer. Simply identify which one you want, locate the particular key on your keyboard and simply press the key combination to get it.

RD

Ian,

Hey Red, if I didn't know you better, I'd think this was a cruel joke:-)

Cruel Joke?!?! Me? Naaahhhh 😉

When you select International (the flag) from the menubar, can you tell me exactly all the options you see? Can you also tell me what keyboard layout you are using (Is the flag American, British etc)?

RD

I wonder if I might be able to jump in and help here.

I've followed Red's steps and managed to find the division sign, so I'll try and explain how I did it.

As you've done, go to the International System Preferences. Select the 'Input Menu' tab/button.

You should then see a list of languages and flags etc., but at the top of the list should be the 'keyboard viewer' option. Select it by clicking the 'On' tickbox on the far left. Make sure also that the option at the bottom of the pane 'Show input menu in menu bar' is also selected.

If it wasn't there already there will be a flag in your menu bar. Click on it, and one of the menu listings should be 'Keyboard viewer'. Click on it to open the viewer.

What looks like a miniature keyboard appears. It allows you to try out various modifier keys (alt, command, ctrl, shift, etc) to see what effect that has on the character that will be inputted. If you try holding down alt, you should see that the '/' key becomes '÷', so you know that alt+/ will give you ÷.

One caveat, though. I think both Red and I are using a British keyboard; this maybe why the wrong symbol is being produced for you. In any case, keyboard viewer should let you see what does what.

Hope this goes some way to helping.

Yours,

W.

Ian,

Okidoki... let's try one more time.

The keyboard shortcut that will give you the '÷' symbol is Option(alt)+/

Note that the '/' key is directly to the left of the left hand Shift key. When you press this key combination do you get '÷'? If not, what do you get?

RD