Mac keyboard shortcuts for special characters

November 6th, 2007

I got frustrated with using the character palate to find commonly used scientific characters. I knew there had to be an easier way to enter betas, alphas, and other symbols. I searched and found this wonderful page of Mac keyboard shortcuts for special characters.

The most useful for me were:

  • © – option-g
  • ™ – option-2
  • plus/minus – option-shift-=
  • mu – option-m
  • beta – option-s
  • delta – option-j
  • greater than or equal – option-.
  • less than or equal – option-,

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  • HT

    This is extremely useful! Thanks.