salestill.blogg.se - Mac keyboard symbols alt codes

#MAC KEYBOARD SYMBOLS ALT CODES MAC#

For example, here’s the keyboard of my coworker Harry Guinness, who lives in Ireland:Īs you can see, the “⌥” and “⇧” symbols are on the keyboard, replacing the words “Option” and “Shift” entirely. You may be wondering: why does Apple use these symbols in the operating system, and not on the physical keyboard? The answer: they used to put these symbols on keyboards everywhere, and still do in many parts of the world. What Aren’t These Stupid Symbols on my Keyboard? If you learn these symbols, you should be able to figure out basically any keyboard shortcut pointed out in the menu bar, or anywhere else online.

↖︎ means Top (called Home on Windows computers).

The first four, simple arrows, are intuitive enough:īut there are four more such symbols, also arrows but used to mean different things entirely: There are also a few symbols commonly used to refer to the navigation keys.

⌦ means Forward Delete (called Delete on Windows keyboards).

⌫ means Delete (called Backspace on Windows keyboards).

There are a few more symbols that macOS uses to represent keys, which are also worth learning. At least, those are the two that trip me up most often. It’s particularly important that you remember that “Shift” is the fleshed-out arrow, and “Control” is the simpler shape.

Memorizing these four symbols should be enough for you to learn the vast majority of keyboard shortcuts. To start, here are the main modifier keys, which you’re likely to see most often:

#MAC KEYBOARD SYMBOLS ALT CODES MAC#

If you’re trying to learn Mac keyboard shortcuts, this is a problem, so here’s a quick reference. But what’s the difference between “⌃” and “⇧,” both basically up arrows? And what the heck is “⌥” supposed to be? You might know that “⌘” corresponds to the Command key, since it actually appears on the keyboard key. What the Arrow, Squiggly, and Other Symbols Mean