May 23
It was only after about a month of steady Mac usage that I first noticed the # symbol missing from the keyboard. I had to do a double and even triple take to confirm that the key doesn’t feature exclusively on any of the numerical keys. It’s a bit odd that it doesn’t feature as it is frequently used in web design to declare colour values.
To display the # symbol press the option/alt key and 3 at the same time.
Magic!
May 27th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
That still gets me, along with no Delete key (hit “fn” and backspace)
May 27th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Hi Lar,
Yup, that got me as well. I couldn’t figure out how to delete things from the desktop or from within finder. I felt like a right tit.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
My # is on Shift-3, and my delete is just a key. As I have a bluetooth mac keyboard I guess you’re talking about a MacBook:)
June 5th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Leon, on my iMac and Macbook I press option+3 to present #
I’m sure you can configure your keyboard using a utility..
June 5th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I just tried the Option-3 thing, and guess what? I get a pound sign (£). It seems the Dutch keyboard differs from an Irish one.
What I think is nifty, by the way, is the keyboard palette.
Click on the flag near the clock, select Show Keyboard (I’m translating my Dutch OS X so you might see something different) and press shift, or the option key and the keyboard “image” shows what characters are activated!
Don’t have a flag? System Preferences->Country->Input menu tab, and check “Show input menu in menu bar” on the bottom.
June 5th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Excellent stuff. Thanks for the tip Leon. I must write a blog post about it.
You learn something new every day
I don’t suppose you know how to make the apple key appear as text? Is that even possible?
June 6th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
It took a bit of searching, but the apple symbol seems to be Shift-Option-k (). I can’t really see it here as Camino probably does not use a font which has that character, at least not for a text area.
I can enter and see it in Mail and Pages, so it does work:) For the Web an image might be the best bet.