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How to Type Curly Brackets { } on a Mac

For the code you write or the math you transcribe, you need curly brackets — and they are nowhere to be found on the...

Already spent more time hunting the elusive π on your Windows keyboard than calculating with it? The symbol may be...

Tired of spelling out “foot,” “inch,” “minute,” “second” or “prime” every time? Can’t find the keys for the prime...

Trying to use Apple’s sleek logo () in text, email or a document and don’t want to settle for words or a clunky...

Trying to wrestle the “plus or minus” sign from your Mac’s keyboard for statistical analysis or a temperature range?...

Want your emails to make you look smart (but not trying too hard)? Find out here how to insert symbols and special...

Tired of typing. out “square root” every time you need ‘√’? How much faster and neater to insert the symbol directly!...

Writing about the weather, climate, astronomy, cooking or health? You need the elusive degree sign — but that little...

Wish you could insert the shorthands for feet and inches on your Mac? Trying to mark minutes and seconds of arc or use...

Looking to write m², mi² or, of course, x² on your Mac? Skip shrinking numbers or fiddling with baselines — there’s a...

Desperately searching for the plus sign only to type everything but — especially on a keyboard that’s not your own?...

Trying to make an ordinal number with small raised letters (like 1ˢᵗ)? Wresting to get a chemical formulae right on a...