To insert a pop-up calendar, place the cursor where you want the calendar. From the Developer tab, click the Date-Picker. A field with an arrow appears on the document. Click the arrow to view the calendar. This Microsoft Word tutorial shows how to add DatePicker controls to a form. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Office-2010-tutorials/Word-2010-Forms-in-Dept.
Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that focuses on standardizing the language inputs. There are many Unicode blocks for special symbols and characters that you can’t type using standard English keyboard layout. In this article, let us explain how to change the input method in Mac to Unicode Hex Input and insert the Unicode characters.
In order to enable typing the special characters, Microsoft uses alt keys on the keyboard as a modifier. You can use the alt key and the decimal value of the Unicode character to insert symbols on your PC. Things are different on macOS. Apple keyboard has option keys (also called alt keys) which you can use to insert symbols. However, you need to use the Unicode hexadecimal values of the character which is not possible using standard input method. Therefore, you should add Unicode compatible input method to type the characters.
Mac offers a Unicode Hex Input method to help users directlyusing the Unicode point value. Follow the below instructions to change thedefault keyboard input method.
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The default English keyboard input in Mac is ABC. Check thetop menu bar on your Mac showing A icon nearer to the time. You can click onthe icon to see multiple options and change your preferred keyboard inputmethod.
Open your document where you want to insert Unicode symbols.Click on the “Input Menu” on the top bar and choose “Unicode Hex Input” option.Now the icon should show as U+.
Hold one of the option keys and type the Unicode hexadecimal values to insert symbols. For example, option + 2A37 will produce the double circle cross sign like ⨷.
You can toggle the input method back to ABC after you typethe symbols. In most cases, you can continue with U+ input method as it shouldstill work for typing standard letters.
Though it is easy to toggle the input method, it supportsonly four digit hex code value. However, Unicode has many 5 digits hex valueswhich you can’t insert using the Unicode Hex Inputs method.
The solution is to press “Command + Control + Space” andopen Character Viewer. On the search bar, you can type to five digits hex codeto find the relevant character. For example, type 1F313 to find the firstquarter moon symbol like ?.
Remember, this will work on all Mac applications. However,Character Viewer will not work on other applications like Microsoft Word on Mac.