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Typing special characters and symbols 109, Typing special characters and symbols – Apple Macintosh Performa 6300CD Series User Manual

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Typing special characters and symbols

You can type a variety of international and other special symbols and
characters (including characters with diacritical marks, such as accents)
by pressing combinations of keys.

The Key Caps program, which is installed with your system software, shows
you the characters produced when you type certain keys and key
combinations in the fonts available on your computer. Choose Key Caps from
the Apple (K) menu, then choose the font from the Key Caps menu.

To have Key Caps show more options for special characters, press each of
these keys or key combinations: Option, Shift, Shift-Option, Shift-x, and
Option-x.

If you press the Option key, Key Caps outlines lightly the keys that you can
use in combination with letter keys to type letters with accents or other
diacritical marks.

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Special Keys on Your Keyboard

Characters appear

here when you press

keys on the keyboard

or click them in

the window.

Characters available
in the Chicago font

The highlighted key

represents the key

held down on the

keyboard—in this

case, the Option key.

Characters available in
the Chicago font when
the Option key is pressed

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