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Highlight the '2', click Edit in the menu at the top of the screen and look for Emojis & Symbols (or Special Characters for earlier Mac OS versions). This will open the same Character Viewer window as in the shortcut described above (the shortcut also works here). Back to Table of Contents Video Showing How to insert squared symbol on Mac.

When you look at a Mac keyboard for the first time, you will see the usual setup - A through Z, numbers 1 through 0, plus all of your standard symbols such as speech marks, question marks, commas, and full stops. Plus, let's not forget the currency symbol for your country such as the US dollar, the British Pound, and the Euro. This is obviously not unique to a Mac keyboard, but to all keyboards for all operating systems.

But did you also realize that there are other symbols available on the keyboard, which are not so readily visible? Ones that are hidden away, but can be brought to the surface with the aid of a keyboard shortcut? This is not very difficult if you know which buttons to press, in order to achieve the desired icon. You just have to remember them or make a list and keep it nearby.

The most important button on the keyboard in all of this is the Option key. This is the one on the bottom row, three keys from the left. If you hold this button down first, and then press another button, the hidden icon will be displayed. Some of them will be really important and necessary. Others not so much. Just quickly try them all out and make a note of the ones which are the most useful to you.

1. Keyboard shortcuts for popular hidden characters Whether you're watermarking photos, writing an essay or hand-crafting a cookbook, the following keyboard shortcuts are well worth memorizing.
2. There are also Option+Shift keyboard shortcuts, and ones that don't use accented letters. For example, typing Option+4 gets you a cent symbol (¢) instead of a dollar sign. Washington State University has a good list of Option and Option+Shift shortcuts for typing special characters on a Mac.

For example, the Copyright symbol. This would be necessary if you wanted to assert your copyright protections and you needed to type the symbol next to a name. But how to get the symbol? It's certainly not shown on the keyboard. Glaring omission? Hardly. Just hold down the Option key and then the letter G. The Copyright symbol will then appear.

Another source of special characters is by opening an application such as a Word Processing doc-ument. Then in the top Mac menu, choose Edit, followed by 'Special Characters'. This opens up a Pandoras Box of emoji and more special characters than you can shake a stick at.

Wma player for mac os x. In German, the Umlaut (two small dots above the letters a, o, and u) can normally be found as separate unique keys on a German Mac keyboard. However, if you are using say a US or UK key-board, the umlauts can also be accessed by holding down the necessary letter (a, o, or u) for a few seconds, and then a small popup window will appear, with variations on that letter.

If software is the route you prefer to go for your hidden icons, then that is catered for too. You don't have to do keyboard shortcuts if you don't want to. A software app can take care of it instead, and may even save you time, depending on your point of view.

The software is called 'Characters' (catchy eh?) and you can get the download link at http://getcharacters.com/. Unfortunately it is not free - it is $2.99, but that may be excellent value if you will need to access these shortcuts on a regular basis.

So this just goes to show that Mac users have a wide range of options - and they are not always advertised. It pays to dig around and see what sprouts up.

How to insert squared or any other specific symbol on Mac computer?

Even simple operations on a computer can sometimes be frustrating. For example: you may be typing an email and wish to use the squared symbol that you cannot find on the keyboard or within the editor. This particular example is a frequent problem that many people encounter. As it is not a significant issue, there is actually little information on how to find this elusive symbol.

Rather than having to browse through various forums and websites, we describe in this simple guide how to use the keyboard to type special characters.

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How to insert various symbols

To begin, we will learn how to insert miscellaneous symbols on a Mac computer through most applications. Some apps include their own editors with an insert symbol function, however, these might not have the symbol you are seeking. As a solution, you can access the Mac OS default symbol list by simply clicking the Control, Command, and Spacebar combination. This shortcut will launch a Character viewer, which includes many different symbols (including the squared symbol). The squared symbol is under the 'Digits - All' section. If you cannot find this category in left sidebar, click the Gear icon to enable it.

How to insert squared symbol in Pages app

In the Pages app, it is easy to access the squared symbol. Enter the number and followed by the '2' digit. For example, 452. Then highlight the '2' by dragging over it, or holding down shift and pressing the arrow left. Click Format in the menu at top of the screen, select Font, and then choose Baseline. Locate Superscript, which changes the '2' into a squared symbol. Beneath Superscript, the Subscript option allows you to enter logarithms.

How to insert squared symbol in Mail app

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To enter specific symbols in Messages or Mail applications, the method is similar to that used for the Pages app. Type the text or number, and then add an additional digit '2'. Highlight the '2', click Edit in the menu at the top of the screen and look for Emojis & Symbols (or Special Characters for earlier Mac OS versions). This will open the same Character Viewer window as in the shortcut described above (the shortcut also works here).

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