Wednesday 18 February 2015

Mac Shortcuts to input Alphabets with Accents or Symbols

MacOS-Accents-CheetSheet

Mac OS Cheat Sheet: How to Input Accents and Symobols

Here is how to input accents and symbols with keys on Mac.
You can try to type on the form on the right of each row.

Mac Key Legend

symbol name
Command key
Control Key
Option Key
Shift Key
Caps Key
fn Function Key

Accents (Diacritic)

name example keyboard keys here to practice
cédille ç any ⌥ + c
capital cédille Ç any ⌥ + ⇧ + c
acute (accent aigu) é á any ⌥ + e, an alphabet
grave (accent grave) è à Japanese, etc. ⌥ + _, an alphabet
English ⌥ + `, an alphabet
circumflex ê î any ⌥ + i, an alphabet
Umlaut ä ü any ⌥ + u, an alphabet
tilde ñ any ⌥ + n, an alphabet

Symbols

name symbol keyboard keys here to practice
Yen ¥ Japanese ¥
Yen ¥ English ⌥ + y
back slash \ Japanese ⌥ + ¥
leader any ⌥ + ;
guillemet start « Japanese ⌥ + ]
English ⌥ + \
guillemet close » Japanese ⌥ + ⇧ + ]
English ⌥ + \
bullet any ⌥ + 8
degree ° any ⌥ + ⇧ + 8
Eszett ß any ⌥ + s
euro any ⌥ + ⇧ + 2
apple any ⌥ + ⇧ + k
delta any ⌥ + j
function ƒ any ⌥ + f
phi ø any ⌥ + o
capital phi Ø any ⌥ + o

Friday 6 February 2015

Cheat Sheet as Presentor on MacOS

MacOSCheetSheet

Mac OS Cheat Sheet as Presenter

This is for presentation.

Mac Key Legend

symbol name
Command key
Control Key
Option Key
Shift Key
Caps Key
fn Function Key

Mac OS

Display

keys action
fn ⌘ F1 Mirror (Duplicate) the current desktop to the projector.
⌘ ⌥ D Hide/show the Dock.

Chrome

Display

keys action
⌃ ⌘ F Switches to the full screen.
⇧ ⌘ F Switches to the presentation mode.

Tabs

keys action
⌘ ⌥ → Switches to the next tab.
⌘ ⌥ ← Switches to the previous tab.

Bookmark

keys action
⌥ ⌘ B Open Bookmark Manager.