oh Anne, thanks for that and I will check it out. >From Wendy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Robertson" <a...@anarchie.org.uk> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:00 PM Subject: Re: keyboard layout
> > Hello Wendy, > > The Apple keyboard layout is different from Windows. The "@" sign is > over the 2, and double-quotes is above the apostrophe. You can tell > for sure whether your keyboard is British or not by doing Shift-3. If > you get the pound sign, it's British. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Wendy wrote: > >> >> Hi Ester, I've followed your instrucitons and all seems well. Let me >> explain though, on my windows keyboard when i do a capital 2 it vies >> me a >> double quites sign and a capital apostrophe for the at sign, on the >> apple >> its the opposite way round and someone told me that the first way i >> described is the american keyboard way although the apple seems to >> be right >> and the right boxes are checked from what i've done. So ithe the >> Capital 2 >> as the at sign and capital apostrophe as the double quote just a >> standard >> apple way for apple computer on whichever way you have the keyboard >> set up. >> >> From Wendy. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Esther" <mori...@mac.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:08 AM >> Subject: Re: keyboard layout >> >> >>> >>> Hi Wendy, >>> >>> Do you just want to change your keyboard layout from US to UK or your >>> complete language localization? Also, do you want to be able to >>> switch to a UK keyboard or make that your sole (default) keyboard? >>> The difference between just using a UK keyboard (and not a UK >>> localization) is that your spell checker and grammar checker (if you >>> use them) will still use US English conventions. >>> >>> To add a UK input keyboard, go to the International Menu under System >>> Preferences, navigate to the Input Menu tab, and check the box for >>> your input language in the table. I'll use VO as a shortcut meaning >>> press the VoiceOver Control and Option keys. VO-M means press >>> Control, Option, and M keys, etc.: >>> >>> 1. VO-M to the menu bar Apple Menu >>> 2. Arrow down and press "s y" to go to "System Preferences" and press >>> enter >>> 3. In the System Preferences window tab (or VO-Right Arrow) to the >>> International menu and select it with VO-Space >>> 4. VO-Right Arrow to the "Input Menu" tab and press it (VO-Space) >>> 5. VO-Right Arrow to the table of keyboard inputs and interact (VO- >>> Shift-Down arrow) >>> 6. VO-Right Arrow to the second column, which lists the name of the >>> selected keyboard; then VO-Down Arrow to "British". (The entries are >>> alphabetic after Character entries for palette and Chinese/Japanese/ >>> Korean inputs, and "British is a little more than 40 key presses >>> down.) >>> 7. VO-Left Arrow to the first check box column and us VO-Space to >>> check the entry for "British" >>> 8. Stop interacting with the table (VO-Shift Up Arrow) >>> 9. VO-Right Arrow to the check box for "Show input menu in menu bar" >>> and check it with VO-Space >>> 10. Close the International preferences menu with Command-W >>> 11. To select the British keyboard, press VO-M twice to navigate to >>> the status menu bar. VO-Right Arrow to the Text Input menu, then >>> arrow >>> down to select "British" and press enter. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 23:29, Wendy wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Can someone tell me how I change the keyboard layout from US to UK >>>> please?> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> From Wendy. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
