

Additionally, I’ve often found accessing the “Special Characters” of fonts to be quite tedious. There are still a few things lingering, though.įor example, I’ve yet to find a file/folder comparison application that even remotely stands up to Beyond Compare (I’m looking at you, ScooterSoft… let’s get this done!). It’s been many a year now since I started working almost exclusively with a Mac at the office, and there’s very few things left that I haven’t found equal or better ways of doing things compared to Windows.

Just remember to spell it out exactly, including the elipses- Special Characters… If that’s not fast enough for you, any myriad of programs can create shortcuts to menu items, including the built in “Keyboard Shortcuts” portion of the Preferences. At least all the programs I’ve used and remembered to check. It appears that as part of OSX Lion they’ve force-added “Special Characters…” to the Edit menu of every program.

#Insert special characters in word for mac 2010 mac os x#
You now get a “Item “charmap” is used by Mac OS X and can’t be opened” message box. app (literally) as though you had selected “Show Package Contents” from the context menu, and you find yourself staring into the soul of CharacterPalette.app instead of launching the app itself. Sometimes it works, sometimes it actually opens the. This functionality has been hit or miss removed in Lion.
