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Quick Insertion of symbols
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Aug 22, 2022

I'm not a fan of the Input menu in the menu bar to insert symbols. Instead, I have created a palette that contains the symbols that I use most often:

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Symbols can be inserted with a mouse click or keyboard shortcut, e.g. Option+2 to insert subscript 2.
 
Wolfgang Schoene
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English to German
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Useful Aug 22, 2022

Hans Lenting wrote:

I'm not a fan of the Input menu in the menu bar to insert symbols. Instead, I have created a palette that contains the symbols that I use most often:

2221

Symbols can be inserted with a mouse click or keyboard shortcut, e.g. Option+2 to insert subscript 2.


And how did you do that?
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
Easy Aug 22, 2022

Download and install Keyboard Maestro.

Download the macro: https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/quickly-insert-symbols/28783?u=alyb

Import it, ready.

Wolfgang Schoene
 


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