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52 Chapter 3 Formatting Text and Paragraphs
4 To see the different accent marks that you can type highlighted in the Keyboard
Viewer, press Option, or the Option and Shift keys.
The accent mark keys appear with white outlines. Depending on your keyboard, you
may not need to press any of the modifier keys to see the accent keys.
5 Place the insertion point in your document where you want to type.
6 Press the modifier key you pressed in step 4 (Shift, Option, Option-Shift, or none) and
press the key on your keyboard that is in the same place as the accent you see in the
Keyboard Viewer. Then release the modifier key and press the key for the character
you want to accent.
The accent key modifies the key you type next. For example, on a U.S. keyboard, to
make the é appear, press Option and E (the accent key), then press E (the key on
which you want that accent to appear).
To see keyboard layouts for other languages:
1 Choose Apple > System Preferences and click International.
2 Click Input Menu, then select the checkbox next to Keyboard Viewer.
3 To see the character layout on keyboards used in different countries, select the On
checkbox next to the country's keyboard layout or input method.
Note: You must have fonts installed for the language you want to see in the Keyboard
Viewer.
4 Choose Show Keyboard Viewer from the Input menu on the right side of the menu
bar (the one that looks like a flag or alphabetical character).
The Keyboard Viewer shows the characters for the keyboard layout or input method
selected in the Input menu. For example, if U.S. is chosen in the input menu, you see
the characters that appear on a U.S. keyboard in the Keyboard Viewer.
5 To see the keyboard layout for a different country, choose its keyboard layout from the
Input menu.
To type special characters and symbols:
1 Place the insertion point where you want the special character or symbol to appear.
2 Choose Edit > Special Characters to open the Character Palette (or choose Characters
from the Action pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the Font panel).
3 Choose the type of characters you want to see from the View pop-up menu at the top
of the Character Palette.