. Keystroke Combination: A Mac keyboard has a grave key meant to be used in combination with a vowel.
Hold down the Option key and the grave key, which is located on the same key as the tilde, at the same time. Release both keys and immediately type the letter to be accented to create lowercase characters with grave accent marks. For the uppercase version of the character, press the Shift key after you release the Option and grave keys and before you type the letter to be accented. Emoji & Symbols Menu: You can also generate a grave and other diacritical marks using the Mac's Emoji & Symbols menu located under Edit in the menu bar. Type grave in the Emoji & Symbols search bar and select the character with a grave accent to view an expanded selection of characters with grave accents. In HTML, some characters with grave accent marks may appear smaller than surrounding text. In this case, enlarge the font for only those characters as needed.
Letters with Accents. This list is organized by Accent type. For the Template, the symbol 'V' means any vowel. The format is to hold the first two keys down simultaneously, release, then type the letter you wish to be accented.
In Windows, don't use the numbers located at the top of the keyboard to insert characters with accents. Use the numeric keypad and be sure Num Lock is turned on. Some programs may have special keystrokes or menu options for creating diacriticals such as grave accent marks.
See the application manual or help files if the general keystroke instructions presented here don't work for typing grave accent marks in an app or program.
You can use the Character Viewer to insert smileys, dingbats, and other symbols as you type. Click the place in your document or message where you want the character to appear. Press Control–Command–Space bar. The Character Viewer pop-up window appears:. Use the search field at the top of the window, or click to expand the window and reveal more characters:. When you find the character that you want, click or double-click it to insert it into your text.
In the app, you can also see the Character Viewer popup when you click in the lower-right corner. With macOS Sierra or later, emoji you send in Messages appear at the same size as the text they're part of.
If you just send a few emoji without any other text, the emoji appear three times larger. To type an accented or alternate version of a character, press and hold a key until its alternate characters appear. To choose one of the characters displayed, type the number that appears under the character, or click the character you want to use. If you decide you don't want to type an accented character after holding a key, type another character, or press the Esc (escape) key. If no additional characters are available for the key you're holding, the accent menu doesn't appear. The menu also doesn't appear when the Key Repeat slider is set to Off in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences.
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Some keys repeat when you press and hold them, depending on where you type them. Press and hold the Space bar or symbol keys (like hyphen or equals) to make these characters repeat in most apps. In apps where accented characters aren't used (like Calculator, Grapher, or Terminal), letter and number keys also repeat when you press and hold them.
If a character isn't repeating, check the Keyboard pane of System Preferences to make sure that the Key Repeat slider isn't set to Off. If a key isn't designed to repeat in the app you’re using, copy the character to the clipboard. Then, hold Command-V to paste the character or word repeatedly.