bdaxon
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Q: Creating Shortcuts

Is there a way to create keyboard shortcuts across all Apple Works applications for symbols not already included on the keyboard viewer? For example: I often include ↑ in keynote presentations and would like to enter it by hitting a few keystrokes rather than have to pull up the character window every time. I typically use multiple characters as well and don't want to have to continually search, copy, paste, repeat. Thank you.

MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Jun 2, 2016 9:14 PM

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Q: Creating Shortcuts

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  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Jun 3, 2016 3:09 AM in response to bdaxon
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    Jun 3, 2016 3:09 AM in response to bdaxon

    Try using the text replacement feature found in system preferences/keyboard/text

  • by bdaxon,

    bdaxon bdaxon Jun 3, 2016 8:38 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Jun 3, 2016 8:38 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    I've done that before, but it still takes time, ruins the flow in composing keynote/pages/numbers, and it forces me to "read code" since I'll use multiple symbols in a presentation/document and I have to decipher whatever text I use as a stop-gap. It just seems unusual that one can create shortcuts for menu functions but not for individual characters, or am I missing how to do that?

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Jun 4, 2016 2:55 AM in response to bdaxon
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    Jun 4, 2016 2:55 AM in response to bdaxon

    An alternative to using text replacement systems would be to set up a custom keyboard layout.  Two apps for doing this are Ukelele and Karabiner.