Audio software for mac. • Accent menu: On a keyboard, hold down the letter you want to add an accent to for several seconds, after which a small menu pops up with different accent options for that letter. Each option for a particular letter appears with a number underneath it. Either press the number key for the version you want to use on the keyboard or use your mouse to click on the mark or its number in the accent menu. A text file will automatically open in Notepad (for a PC) or SimpleText (for a Mac) instead of Microsoft Word. The only thing that will display is nonsense characters. If you are seeing nonsense characters, try opening Microsoft Word first and then re-open the template. For an accented a press and hold the a key while you tap the number 2 on the keyboard or click on the number 2 in the accent menu with your mouse. For the uppercase version of the character, press the Shift key before you type and hold the letter you want to accent. The symbol you select appears in your document. • Emoji & Symbols menu: To use the & Symbols menu (called Special Characters in older versions of the software), position your cursor in a place where you can enter text. Click the Edit menu at the top of the screen and select Emoji & Symbols. Expand the menu by clicking the icon in the upper right corner. Select a symbol category from the left panel or enter a symbol name in the search field and locate the symbol you want in the central window. Additional variations of that particular symbol appear in the right panel. Double-click on any symbol to place it where your mouse was positioned. For example, if you type 'accent' in the search field, you'll see characters and variations of all types of accents. Short Answer: Command-8 (⌘-8) There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the beginning. Command-8 does it. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. Microsoft Word on the Mac has a nice feature that lets you show invisible characters such as returns, tabs, and spaces. Those characters are just as “charactery” as anything else you type– they take up space, they’re copy and paste-able, you can give them a point size– but they’re invisible. Most of the requests I get on this topic concern turning invisibles off, because since the user often doesn’t know how he turned those invisible characters on, he also doesn’t know how to turn them off. Here’s how you do both. Here’s a Word 2011 document showing invisible characters. Click it to see a larger version! Microsoft Word 2011 document showing Invisible Characters Here’s a Word 2016 document showing invisible characters (slightly different). Microsoft Word 2016 with Invisibles Showing Here’s a Word 2011 document with the invisible characters hidden. Microsoft Word 2011 document with Invisible Characters hidden Here’s a Word 2016 document with the invisible characters hidden (again, slightly different). Click to enlarge. Microsoft Word 2016, Invisibles Hidden Here’s the toolbar button that toggles Invisibles on and off in Word 2011. Click to see the close-up view. Invisibles Toggle button in Microsoft Word 2011 toolbar Here’s the toolbar button that toggles Invisibles on and off in Word 2016. The button will disappear if you hide the Ribbon, so don’t do that. Click to see it better. Microsoft Word 2016 toolbar showing Toggle Invisibles button That’s all there is to it. Click the button in the toolbar to show the invisible characters; click the button again to hide them. Double-Bonus: sometimes the button doesn’t work. In that case, Command-8 isn’t going to work either. If this happens to you, go to View in Word’s Preferences, and make sure you have nothing checked under “Nonprinting characters.” See the picture below (Microsoft Word 2011). Definitely click! Be sure you don’t have anything checked under “Nonprinting characters.” Here’s what to look for in Word 2016’s preferences. I’ll bet the picture gets bigger if you click it! Word 2016 preferences for showing invisible characters I don’t know why you would want to check those boxes, but if you do, the toolbar button and the Command-8 keyboard shortcut will not toggle those characters’ visibility.
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