Oct 11, 2010 - As a Mac consultant, I'm often asked some pretty bizarre questions. Office 365 for Mac now supports Dark Mode. Follow along as I show you how to insert or type characters that won't be found on your keyboard. To type the special characters, go back to the Input menu in the menu bar and select.
It's just available in some programs and not others, not system-wide. It just sucks because you can do it in both Adobe InDesign and Photoshop using Command + Shift + (+).but not Illustrator. The day Photoshop has superior type editing functionality than Illustrator, well, maybe the Adobe Illustrator team is just slacking.
It's not like it's some unusual request. I'm 100 percent positive you used to be able to do it in older Illustrator versions. Currently the only way to do it is manually in the character palette options menu.really blows. It's just available in some programs and not others, not system-wide. It just sucks because you can do it in both Adobe InDesign and Photoshop using Command + Shift + (+).but not Illustrator.
The day Photoshop has superior type editing functionality than Illustrator, well, maybe the Adobe Illustrator team is just slacking. It's not like it's some unusual request. I'm 100 percent positive you used to be able to do it in older Illustrator versions. Currently the only way to do it is manually in the character palette options menu.really blows. There are really several aspects to this and therefore several possible solutions. Areas of concern:.
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Typing in applications- document composition applications like Pages, Word. Spreadsheets and other specific apps like Excel, the various Adobe suites, and others. You probably guessed that each app or suite will have potentially it's unique way of handling super (and sub-) scripting, which is what you are referring to. Typing in text apps, note-taking apps. Typing in specific others like Terminal, Messaging, Email that are more closely associated with the OS and tied to specific OS character settings.
System wide setting of specific character combinations like 1st, 2nd, etc. These might also affect Web browser apps like the one I'm using now. Possible solutions:. Set System-wide superscripts. You would have to force superscripts for '1st, 2nd.' Or for the last numeric character typed before a space to force those following specific two letters as superscripts WHERE THEY OCCUR. I actually had this working, sorta nicely at one time, but then it stopped.
Windows does this rather elegantly somehow. I still seem to have a character substitution in place for 0ᵀᴴ (e.g., 100th is typed as 0ᵀᴴ and put the '10' or other characters before it), as an example. You would also have to do this for common fractions like, '½, ¼, etc.' Mac's error correcting schema seems to occur automatically for specific combinations. Uncommon fractions would require manual intervention. Three (or more) character fractions E.G., '13/16, 5/16, 3/32'.
Clearly, the characters exist in the table, somewhere. Manually in specific applications. In ADDITION to doing the above apps tend to control the characters' use and do not follow the system settings. You would have to use a specific keystroke for each program for that. The autocorrect or system settings might work sporadically for this or learn it and work great. I have had limited success. It would be nice to have a common solution that works across ALL apps and scenarios.
It doesn't seem possible in Mac OS or at least it's unreliable as it is now or has been in OS X. Click to expand.FYI, there is. Try the $4.99 aText.app by Tran Ky Nam. It works as text substitution in any app or limited to specific apps, as you wish. It far exceeds (and replaces) the supplied substitutions in System PreferencesKeyboardText. As example, typing a number '2', the character 'st' followed by a space substitutes 2ᴺᴰ (which are the Unicode superscripted upper case characters). This, as you can see here, is applicable in ALL apps (as it modifies the system settings, unless restricted.
Also, common fractions can be typed directly, like ½ and ¾. Also ℅ , etc. You do have to be careful not to inadvertently use some of them. Works in Yosemite and earlier OS's back to Mountain Lion that by default support Unicode per an Apple KB article.
Note: If your copy of Office came with a PIN instead of a product key, go to and enter your PIN to get your product key. Sign in with an Office 365 subscription If you have an Office 365 subscription, you can’t use your product key to activate Mac 2011.
Instead, sign in with the email address that’s associated with Office. Open an Office application and click Activate Now. In the Get Started wizard, click Sign in to an existing Office 365 subscription, and sign in with the email address that’s associated with Office. Update Office In many cases, updating Office will fix the problem. If you can, open an application like Word and click Help Check for Product updates. If you can’t open an application, go to, scroll to the to the Office for Mac updates section, choose the latest update available.
After the page refreshes, scroll back down to the Office for Mac updates section, and then click the Download Now button. Get an app password for two-step verification If you have two-step verification turned on, you might get an invalid product key error because Office doesn’t prompt you for the extra security code during activation. To fix this, get and enter a unique app password to sign in. to your Microsoft account. Under App passwords, click Create a new app password. Note: If you don’t see App passwords, you don’t have Two-step verification turned on so it isn’t the reason you received the invalid product key error. Skip to the next section to fix the error.
Click Copy app password to Clipboard. Open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and when prompted, paste the app password instead of your Microsoft account and click Sign In. If you don't want to reenter an app password each time you sign in to an Office app, select the Save password in my Mac OS keychain check box. Check the name of your hard drive Make sure the name of your hard drive doesn’t contain spaces, characters such as a slash ( / ), or commas. If it does, rename your hard drive and then run the Office setup wizard.
Remove previous Office files Remove any previous Office licenses, preferences, and subscription files that might prevent Office from activating. Click Go Computer and then double-click your hard drive. Note: If you don’t see the Library folder, it could be hidden. To display this folder, hold down the Option key while you click the Go menu.
Go back to Library, click PrivilegedHelperTools and then drag com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper to the Trash. Go back to Library, click Preferences, and then drag com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist to the Trash. Go back to Library, click Preferences ByHost. Click the down arrow next Settings Arrange By Name to arrange files and folders in alphabetical order and then drag all files that begin with 'com.microsoft' to the Trash. Run the Office setup wizard again. Remove Office from your computer, and then reinstall Follow the steps to and then reinstall Office.
Notes:. If you're experiencing issues with downloading Office 365 for Mac, you can also download the file from your account page. See for details. Some Chrome users may see a 'harmful file type' warning because the file is in a.pkg format. To continue, select Keep and launch the installer.
After you've installed Office 365 for Mac, open any Office program such as Word and you'll be prompted to activate. Enter your Microsoft Account associated with your active Office 365 subscription to complete the process. You might see an 'invalid certificate' error when installing Office for Mac 2011 or Lync for Mac 2011. This occurs because a few of our install and update packages are signed with an older certificate. You'll simply need to download a package for a newer version, which uses an updated certificate, to use for your installation.
This error does not impact your license or subscription. When you see this dialog box, click Cancel. Download the package for the newer version, using the links in the following table.
Package with the older certificate Download this newer version Office 2011 Volume License packages (build 14.4.3) that were downloaded from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) prior to March 8, 2017 (all languages). Office 2011 14.7.1 Installer for Italian and Norwegian. Office 2011 14.7.1 Combo update for German, Japanese, and Polish Lync 14.4.1 installer. Open the update from your Downloads folder. Click to install.
You're good to go!