![]() ![]() ![]() To type a smaller degree symbol on your Mac, use the keyboard shortcut option + K. The shortcuts are similar, so you can choose which one you prefer. This one is fun because there are actually two options-one smaller degree symbol, and one larger degree symbol on Macs. Original image courtesy of Apple Degree Symbol (Smaller & Larger) To type a square root symbol on your Mac, use the keyboard shortcut option + V. Okay, this one made me feel great when researching top symbols for this article, because now I feel less like I'm the only one who regularly uses the symbol for square root on my Mac! To type a pound (money) symbol on your Mac, use the keyboard shortcut option + 3. I also sometimes have to use the pound symbol when writing about different currencies, so I thought this one would come in handy. To type a Euro symbol on your Mac, use the keyboard shortcut option + shift + 2. While the Dollar symbol is included on the "4" key on a standard English keyboard, this one take a little more finesse. The list might be small for now, but I’ll be sure to add other helpful ones in the future.Whenever I write about pricing and have to include symbols for different currencies, knowing how to type a Euro symbol on a Mac comes in very handy. This list is meant to be a sub-set of those that I use on a daily basis. I know there are a lot of pages out there that list shortcut keys, but they seem to be huge and also list a ton that I’ll never use. ![]() When I found out what the symbols meant, I was able to come up with the following table of the shortcut keys that help me navigate and use Xcode 4 quickly. A quick search led me to Ted Wise’s page:, which was very helpful. However, the option symbol and the control symbol are not on their respective keys so I had to ask Google about them. Now on the MacBook Pro that I’m currently using, the command symbol is on the command key, so it’s easy to see that the symbol goes with that key. The most notable ones are the control, option and command symbols. The first confusing thing that I ran into was the funny symbols the Mac OS uses to define special keys. However if I want to do that, I need to know all the keyboard commands that I normally use on a Microsoft Windows computer. In order to do things faster, I try to keep from going back and forth between the keyboard and the mouse. I’ve never been a Mac user and probably never will be, but since I have to use it for now, it’s really helpful to know how to get around on one. ![]() I’ve been tasked with creating a new program to go onto the Apple Store. ![]()
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