How To Type Registered Symbol On Mac

Here'southward the state of affairs: you're typing a written report for work, and you all of a sudden have to write the phrase "Jones née Berkowitz." Or you are calculation a phrase in Spanish and need to employ the word "años." How do you lot add the special characters to the letters?

Special characters (also known as diacritical marks) may exist more than mutual in certain languages, but at that place are plenty of circumstances in which English speakers may need to use them. But because they are so rare in English, native English speakers may not have learned how to add those marks to documents, emails, or other writings on their Macs.

Here'south how:

For access to more common diacritical marks, yous just need to hold downwards the key for the letter you want to use until a small numbered carte du jour appears on-screen. The carte that pops upwards will show all of the diacritical marks available for that letter; just blazon the correct number, and the letter with the marker will announced on your screen.

If you hold down the — *If you hold downwardly the "due east" key, all of the available diacritical marks will appear with numbers.*

Employ the Keyboard Viewer

There are a number of other special characters that you may want to use, which y'all tin access by pressing down the Option key on your Mac's keyboard and so pressing the advisable key. Not certain which key is the appropriate one? There is a Keyboard Viewer that will let you see all of the variations that you lot tin use.

It'due south simple to detect the Keyboard Viewer — if you've got the icon for the Input Menu in your menu bar.

The icon for the Input Menu appears in the upper right menu bar. — *The icon for the Input Carte du jour appears in the upper right card bar.*

Don't encounter it? Hither'south how to get it into your carte bar:

Go to Apple tree carte > System Preferences > Keyboard. Click on the Input Sources tab and look for the checkbox labeled "Show Input menu in card bar." If it's non checked, and so check it.

To get the Input Menu icon, you need to enable it in your Keyboard preferences. — *To become the Input Menu icon, you need to enable it in your Keyboard preferences.*

Click on the Input Carte icon (which volition now be on the right side of your carte du jour bar). Select "Show Keyboard Viewer."

A visual of your keyboard will announced on your screen. If you press on the Option key on your keyboard, the Keyboard Viewer will show you what special characters are available if you printing those keys in combination with the Pick key.

Annotation: some of the keys volition exist outlined in orange. These are the keys we mentioned earlier, the ones that have several special characters and can exist held downward to see the various characters that can exist used with them.