Keyboard hacks
Customise your keyboard
There are lots of useful keyboard hacks for Mac that anyone can try
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IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to find characters and make changes to accomplish things more easily
YOU’LL NEED macOS 10.4 or later
Genius tip!
Find Latin, maths symbols and more in Character Viewer and add accents/diacritical marks to letters by holding the relevant key and selecting.
Your keyboard may feel fixed but it’s more adaptable than you may imagine. With a few tweaks, you can put a host of extra functions at your fingertips, making it easier to type and navigate applications. Maybe create your own macOS keyboard shortcuts and edit any of the existing ones. Or assign specific functions to keys and go beyond the character set you see printed on the keyboard, even making use of different language layouts.