keyboard shortcuts are gone

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keyboard shortcuts are gone

Not sure if this was due to a recent upgrade or what - All I have in my System Preferences > Keyboard > Text are my own personally-created keyboard shortcuts. All the system-installed ones (like for smart fractions and replacing (c) with the copyright symbol) are gone. Tried calling Apple Support but it wasn't a familiar problem to them and they figured it might have been a recent Yosemite upgrade that did it. Anybody out there have this same issue? If it was my personal ones that were gone, I could at least recreate them, but how do you type a smart fraction for one-half without just typing the shortcut phrase, "1/2"?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Preview app

Posted on Mar 23, 2015 10:10 AM

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léonie

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Mar 23, 2015 10:39 AM in response to venturer16

½ ¼

You can add the ½ ¼ to your own shortcuts and then use them like before:

To enter the shortcut use the character viewer:

¼ etc. are in the Basic Latin section of the unicode table:

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venturer16 Author

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Mar 23, 2015 11:10 AM in response to léonie

Thank you so much, Iéonie! That didn't answer the issue of WHY but it gave me a great stopgap until it's figured out. I had no idea there were so many character options available. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer, especially going to the trouble of screenshots. 🙂

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léonie

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Mar 23, 2015 11:18 AM in response to venturer16

You're welcome! 🙂

I don't know the "Why" and would not dare to guess Apple's intentions. It changed sometime during the Yosemite upgrade.

In many applications you can now access the Character Viewer from the "Edit" menu, "Emoji and Symbols", or simply using the shortcut ^⌘Space

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 23, 2015 11:37 AM in response to léonie

léonie wrote:

It changed sometime during the Yosemite upgrade.

Actually this happened with the release of 10.9 Mavericks. A clean install of that also has the empty list.

However some users may not be affected, as these shortcuts can sometimes get synced over icloud from other machines or via the updating process.

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léonie

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Mar 23, 2015 11:43 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the clarification Tom! I only noticed it later.

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venturer16 Author

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Mar 23, 2015 11:49 AM in response to léonie

Yeah, this was the first time I'd noticed it. Weird thing is, I observed the exact opposite (the preinstalled shortcuts appearing, my personally made ones gone) about a week ago. I called Apple Support and we ended up signing me out of iCloud on my MacBook and signing back in and they were back. Then I noticed the fractions not updating to smart fractions as I was typing today and that led me to discover last week's situation had inexplicably reversed. So I have no idea.

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 23, 2015 11:54 AM in response to venturer16

venturer16 wrote:

I called Apple Support and we ended up signing me out of iCloud on my MacBook and signing back in and they were back. Then I noticed the fractions not updating to smart fractions as I was typing today and that led me to discover last week's situation had inexplicably reversed. So I have no idea.

How many systems do you have on your iCloud account? It sounds like it could be sporadic syncing with a device which does have the shortcuts and one that doesn't. Or just buggy synching....

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venturer16 Author

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Mar 23, 2015 11:55 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I have a MacBook Pro, an iPad mini, and an iPhone 6. All of them were showing the same thing, both last week and then this week. 😕

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