Finding special symbols on your Mac the easy way

©  – Where is the copyright symbol on my Mac?

©  – hold alt key & press g

#  – Where is the Hash tag on my Mac?

#  – hold alt and shift (caps lock) & press 3

% Where is the percentage Symbol on my mac?

For percentage symbol you need to use the character viewer. If this is not shown in the menu at the top right of your screen you will need to enable it.

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character viewer on mac

character viewer on mac

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Open the finder bottom left

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select the finder symbol

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Click on applications

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select applications

select applications

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Select system preferences

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select system preferences

select system preferences

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Select Language and Text form the ‘Personal” menu

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select language and text

select language and text

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Check the box Keyboard and character view and also the ‘show input menu in menu bar’

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check the two boxes as shown

check the two boxes as shown

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Now the character button should show up in the top right of your screen

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show character viewer

show character viewer

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Now when you want to show the percentage symbol click on the character viewer icon and select ‘show character viewer’

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The percentage symbol is found under Punctuation.

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finding the percentage symbol on mac

finding the percentage symbol on mac

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3 Responses to “Finding special symbols on your Mac the easy way”

Apple Mac Keyboard # hashtag – where is it? « Silicon Beach Training Blog says:

[...] don’t go away Iv’e written a really simple and short tutorial on turning on your Special Character Viewer on Mac so even when you forget you can still find it easily. Also it’s the only way of typing a % [...]

Terence says:

Ace tip. Thanks.

Peter says:

At last. I can hash tag. Thanks for the great explanation.

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