![]() ![]() For some reason, Apple doesn’t offer a way to click-lock those keys to perform combinations. One limitation: You can only click keys that appear without the use of onscreen Shift or Option keys. (One reader couldn’t enter their password in order to prep a machine to take in for repair, because the password contained…a character that the keyboard could no longer type.) With Keyboard Viewer, you can click keys and those characters are inserted wherever your cursor is. I’ve heard from readers who can’t type a particular key because something’s gone wrong with their hardware keyboard and they can’t summon up a replacement keyboard to plug in and use. ![]() This might happen if you’ve got a wonky laptop keyboard that you’re planning to take in for replacement, or if you’re using a Mac set to a language you don’t speak or if you’re trying to enter characters in that language. Keyboard Viewer shows you “key caps.” You can click to “type.” You may rarely need it-except when you’re trying to type a key that your keyboard doesn’t allow or you can’t find. That feature never disappeared, though it did recede from view, and was renamed Keyboard Viewer. Holding down Option and Shift-Option would reveal the secrets of π and ‰ and accent marks. As a long-time Mac user, I once had to rely on Key Caps, an early Mac helper that would show you where special characters hid on a keyboard.
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