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Re: [LUG] Keyboards

 

On 1 Nov, 2011, at 9:38 am, Julian Hall wrote:

I love the fact that the design gurus at Apple made the schoolboy howler of forgetting the # key on iMacs... something they still haven't corrected AFAIK.

I just thought... did you not know that you type Option-3 to get the alternate symbol -- # on a UK keyboard, £ on a US one? Poor affordance, maybe, but hardly "forgetting" or a howler.

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