Anybody knows how to get this character '#' on a MacbookPro keyboard. It's got to be some way of getting it or I am blind. Thanks
2 years ago.
3 comments so far
hey - it's usually shift+3.
another thing that might help: go into system preferences/ international and in Input menu enable Character Palette and Keyboard viewer. After that, you can find them in the drop down menu triggered by the USA flag icon in the top taskbar (next to the clock).
Character palette has a bunch of odd symbols you might need,
Keyboard viewer shows key inputs. If you hold down shift, you'll be able to see where # is on your keyboard.
I have a US keyboard with US mapping but often write in Spanish and German... all characters are there. "Option+u and a vowel" gets you the vowel with umlaut, "Option+e and a vowel" gets you an accented vowels, tilde comes with "Option+n", euro sign Shift+Option+2... all in all, all chars and sign are there... that's the reason why I only use the US mapping (besides the not getting lost as everything corresponds to the real layout :-p )
3 comments so far
hey - it's usually shift+3.
another thing that might help: go into system preferences/ international and in Input menu enable Character Palette and Keyboard viewer. After that, you can find them in the drop down menu triggered by the USA flag icon in the top taskbar (next to the clock).
Character palette has a bunch of odd symbols you might need, Keyboard viewer shows key inputs. If you hold down shift, you'll be able to see where # is on your keyboard.
2 years ago by alc990
This is awesome tip. Thanks a lot ! I actually forgot to say that I have UK keyboard, so instead of Shift+3, which is mapped to £, I have to do Alt+3
2 years ago by Mahadewa
I have a US keyboard with US mapping but often write in Spanish and German... all characters are there. "Option+u and a vowel" gets you the vowel with umlaut, "Option+e and a vowel" gets you an accented vowels, tilde comes with "Option+n", euro sign Shift+Option+2... all in all, all chars and sign are there... that's the reason why I only use the US mapping (besides the not getting lost as everything corresponds to the real layout :-p )
2 years ago by erocarrera