Choose the Keyboard viewer or the Emoji & Symbols floating window. Categories in common with Microsoft Word.
Or Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer. Pages for Mac is a powerful word processor that gives you everything you need to create documents that look beautiful. Go to Apple | System Preferences | Keyboard and check the option ‘Show Keyboard and Character viewers’. When you’re done editing the document in Pages, you will have to save it on your desktop if you want to keep a copy of this edited Pages. Click on File in the menu bar and select Open. The equivalent on the Mac is the expanded keyboard setting. How do you use Word on a Mac How to open a Microsoft Word doc in Pages on a Mac Open Pages on your Mac computer. In Office for Windows, use the Windows Character Map or the Emoji Panel. The fix for Macintosh users is the same as in Office for Windows … look to the operating system. The Keyboard Shortcut option is no help either, because it’s limited to making shortcuts from the symbols visible on the dialog. There’s no good reason for that omission, aside from Microsoft not bothering. The really useful Word Alt + X trick (which converts a Unicode number into a symbol) is NOT available in Word for Mac. If Word for Mac supported the full range of characters, the subset feature would let you jump to a group of characters.Įven if you know the ASCII or Unicode number for the character, you can’t type it in as you can in Office for Windows. The Word for Mac dialog only shows the first 228 characters in a font! That’s OK for an old-fashioned ASCII font but modern Unicode fonts can have over 100,000 characters! At least in Word for Windows you can scroll through the list.Īlso missing is the important ‘subset’ pull-down list. “ I cannot seem to access symbols not visible in the panel, … has Microsoft intentionally restricted the range of non-keyboard characters and symbols available on the Mac version of Word?“
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