Many of us do not know that we can also use alt code shortcuts in Apples MacBook and iMac computers.

The default Apple keyboard also has two alt keys on the keyboard layout.

Alt keys are one of the hidden gems in Apple keyboard less used by most of the Mac users.

These alt code Mac shortcuts will work on all default text editing apps like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Notes, TextEdit or when typing emails.

You can use the default English keyboard layout (ABC) when using alt key with other modifier keys like Shift or letter keys.

However, you should change the keyboard layout to Unicode Hex Input in order to use the four digit hexadecimal Unicode points.

We have also grouped the shortcuts in to different categories for the easiness.

You can sort the Category column to find relevant shortcuts easily.

Math mathematical symbols, fractions and operators like, and.

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For example, press alt or option, shift and keys together to produce plus or minus symbol like.

You can use the below shortcut as a reference to insert accented characters in Mac.

Remember, while option a will produce, you dont need to press and hold the option key in most cases.

For example, pressing option u will produce umlaut with the two dots above like.

In order to show the options for capital letters press and hold shift with the special key.

You can change the input method to Unicode Hex Input and type keyboard characters and accented letters.

For example, after switching to Unicode Hex Input, open Pages and type Option 0024 to insert symbol.

You need to use this method for most of the shortcuts in the above table.

Press, Command Control Space to open Character Viewer and insert the symbol you need.

However, you can also use Option or alt key on your Mac to insert symbols and special characters.

In addition, you can also use Character Viewer to insert emojis and symbols on all Mac documents.

This is to avoid it does not conflict with default shortcuts in the system.

It is already in the above table with the name as Power of Two.

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