Special characters in Pages toolbar

Every time I want to type a special character in Pages, I have to open the box from the drop down menu. Instead, I would like to simply put it in the toolbar. However, I have not been able so far to figure out how to do this.

I'm not sure what drop-down menu you're referring to, but you can keep the special characters palette open.

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Special characters in Pages-how do you do them

How do you use special characters - like umlauts - Pages. I tried to follow the directions but get no results.

To clarify.
The regular Mac keyboards have "dead letter" keys that you press first, then follow with the character to get the accent plus the character.
Those accents dead keys are associated with their commonest letters but work with all other accented characters.
eg the umlaut is option u then the a, e, i, o, u = ä, ë, ï, ö, ü
similiarly option e then the a, e, i, o, u = á, é, í, ó, ú
option ` (above the tab) then the a, e, i, o, u = à, è, ì, ò, ù
option n = ñ, ã, õ
There are more and it does require that you have the US keyboard or US International keyboard. It also works with the Australian keyboard and I presume the British keyboard. Other languages and keyboards it may vary.
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Is there a way to add special characters in Pages for iPad?

As I say, is there a way on the iPad, as there is on a MacBook or desktop?
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Eric Weir

I really did not. I tried two fingers, but not sliding my finger onto the character i wanted.
Thanks for bring it to my attention.
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In Pages for iPad is it possible to insert special characters like those for logic and math?

Hello there,
Is there a way to digit special characters in Pages for iPad?
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Maybe I have to install the characters pallet because when I do a search for 'characters pallet' nothing shows up. Also, on a hunch I just tried to click on 'special characters' within the "Pages" app and again nothing comes up!
Do I need to enable something in preferences or perhaps install something from the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion DVD? Also, I am using XCODE 4.2.1 so perhaps I should upgrade. But then again when I click 'special characters' in Pages I still get nothing so I must need to enable something...or perhaps install something...
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How do I use a font variation in a pages document? or other app for that matter? I no longer have the "viewer" - glyph option in the special characters pane (under edit in toolbar). I know the varaition ia available because I can see it in my font book. I depended on that alot so I need to find a way to still use character and embellishments. I don't want to have to go back to my od computer (from2007) Please Help!

I really don't understand.
The menu item is available :
Maybe, you didn't activate the tool :
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 2 août 2011 23:10:17
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Special characters broken in Pages

Hi all,
I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks last week (very happy with the decision) and from Pages '09 to Pages 5. I soon moved from Pages 5 back to Pages 09 as it broke all my ToCs and had various other nuisances.
However, I've come to write a document (I'm an engineer) and inserted a special character (greek epsilon) for the first time since all these upgrades.
Firstly, the special characters palete has turned into a weird emoticon panel... [sidebar - Read the text in the background of the screenshot, Apple Devs - does it REALLY look like purple hearts a priority?].
Secondly, there is an actual bug - when you've finally located the character you want it doesn't insert correctly. In the screenshot below, I've inserted five variants of hte greek letter epsilon. Four of them inserted a totally blacnk character and the fifth some otehr symbol I don't even recognise - certainly no variant of epsilon.
QUESTION 1 - AND AN ANSWER
Is there any way to turn this ridiculous thing off and just open the special characters pallete?
Finally figured out that the button on the top right of the pallette is a toggle. Press it and thereafter the proper pallette shows up first.
QUESTION 2
The usability of the palette aside, I really need special characters - complete game changer for me. Does anyone know whether there is a fix or workaround for this problem please?
NEEDED TO FILE A PLAUSIBLE BUG REPORT
1. More information - if you've upgraded to Mavericks but not yet to Pages 5, could you try inserting an epsilon character please?
2. More information - if you've upgraded to Mavericks and are running Pages 5, could you try inserting an epsilon character please?
3. More information - if you've upgraded to Mavericks, run Pages 5 but still have '09 installed, could you try inserting an epsilon character please?
Answers to these three should help Apple to narrow down the source of the problem.
Thanks for any help you can offer,
Tom

I'm not sure what you are referring to by "variants" of epsilon, but I have no problem inserting Εε or anything else in Pages 4 or Pages 5 while running 10.9.

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We have a publishing site which surfaces content from several catalogs in an authoring site in a cross site collection publishing environment.
We have a problem with labels for Catalog-Item Reuse Snippets containing norwegian vowels/special characters not showing properly. An example of a snippet is shown below. This contains the character ø (oslash).
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The frontend messes the character up and displays this as strange A
We have tried several things in order to fix this but are running out of leads:
tried to change encoding in the page layout html file from utf-8 to iso-8859-1
tried to replace ø with the hex value (ø) and the old school & + oslash + ; way of encoding characters
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Excellent, thanks!. I checked the top level globalization setting i IIS and this was set to Windows-1252.
However, our work around solution was to add the
<meta charset="utf-8">
declaration inside the first MS-statement inside the body tag of the page layout HTML file like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html[]>
<html class="no-js" lang="en" xmlns:mso="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:msdt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882">
<head>
<title>Some title
</title>
</head>
<body>

<meta charset="utf-8">

Strange, but it worked.
Actually we tried to set the globalization settings in the web.config files of the different IIS sites running in the webapp yesterday like this:
<add name="SPWindowsClaimsAuthentication" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPWindowsClaimsAuthenticationHttpModule, Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
</httpModules>
<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" culture="nb-NO" fileEncoding="utf-8"/>

<compilation batch="false" debug="false">
As far as I can understand this should have the same effect as setting this in IIS.
It seems that the IIS setting actually overrides whatever you put in web.config for globalization options.
We have updated the IIS setting now to UTF-8 and done a IIS Reset. At the moment we get corrupted characters still, but now the existing aspx-files probably is corrupted and needs to be replaced with fresh ones. I will do a catalog dis-/reconnect.
I'll update with whatever we end up with as the final solution. Anyway, very grateful for the invaluable help from a fellow Scandinavian :-)

Special characters are not displaying in ADF jsp page

Hi All,
By using ADF view controller,I am getting the data from database table but when I display the data in jsp page after special character < what ever the data is there it is not displaced.Provide any suggestions.
Thanks in Advance
Mani

Hi Mani,
< is a special HTML character and obviously it may not me displayed correctly.
Here is a reference of all HTML special characters: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
In your case you can replace < with its special symbol representation - *&#60; or &lt;*
I also advice you to do so for all special HTML characters.
You can use this Java library for that purpose : http://commons.apache.org/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils.html
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HT1338 My special characters screen for pages is running in the background no matter what I do. It randomly pops up and then goes away. I can't close it even though I have closed pages and restarted my computer. How can I stop this.

My special characters screen for pages is running in the background no matter what I do. It randomly pops up and then goes away. I can't close it even though I have closed pages and restarted my computer. How can I stop this.

Try trashing the .plist with CharacterViewer in its name in Home/Library/Preferences. To get to Home/Library you may need to hold the option key down while you do Finder > Go.

Special Characters Table makes crash Numbers & Pages

Hello All,
I have a small problem with Numbers & Pages.
When I open the "special characters" table and keep it opened to insert characters, after 3 or 4 insertion, it makes freeze and crash Pages or / and Numbers.
However, I've found out that if I close this "SC" windows after each one or two insertion, and re-open it for next insertion, everything run smoothly. Obviously, this method is very messy if you've got to get special characters twice or three times in every word you're typing.
Anybody has faced the same issue or found a better way to solve it ?
Thanks
IanX

Hello
I never met this behaviour so I made a new try.
I was able to insert the entire set of Greek characters with no problem.
So, I guess that something is wrong in your system.
a - reset Permissions using Disk Utility
b- trash these preferences files:
<bootVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Keynote.pli st
<bootVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Numbers.pli st
<bootVolume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Preferences:com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 9 février 2008 12:32:48)

Using devanagari script in the 'special characters' option in Pages

Using the special characters menu in Pages how can I produce double consonances? Any help would be gratefully received

That should be double consonants if you have been searching.
What keyboard are you using?
Devanāgarī Typing & Keyboard Layouts (Mac & Windows)
http://www.indiantypefoundry.com/help/technical-issues/devanagari-keyboard/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3548952?start=0&tstart=0
Peter

Pages '09 special characters showing up weird

Hi, I am a new Mac user and i have found that in pages '09 some of the special characters are not displaying correctly, the main problems are with the mathematical x and y symbols, if I copy and paste the strange characters out of pages then they display correctly it is just in pages that I have the problem. come to think of it the error came along when i upgraded to the latest version of Mountain Lion, could this be a problem?
This is an example of the characters x and y:

Never mind, I found it via google. Unicode 1D465 for the X.
This is because the font in your document does not have that character or uses it for a differnt symbol. When you drag the symbol from the center pane of the character viewer, it pastes it in using whatever font you are using. If you look at the character viewer and look at the font variations, you will see Cambria Math as one of the variations. Drag the symbol from there and it will display correctly (because it will be pasted in as Cambria Math). Or you can use the Cambria font in your document and drag the X from the center pane.

I have a MacBook purchased in 2009 with Snow Leopard. I tried to access "special characters" from the Finder menu and an intermittent blank pop ups and will not stop. It also happens when I run Word or Pages.

The blank pop up began as I tried to access "special characters" from the finder menu. I restarted, turned off and restarted and it did not work. It interferes with any application because I cannot work fast. Every new step takes a few seconds longer such as saving, finding text, check spelling and many more. I am desperate to solve this. Thanks in advance for any help given.
Consuelo Corretjer

Use the trackpad to scroll, thats what it was designed for. The scroll bars automatically disappear when not being used and will appear if you scroll up or down using the trackpad.
This is a user-to-user forum and most people will post on here if they have problems. You very rarely get people posting to say there update went smooth. The fact is the vast majority of Mountain Lion users will not be experiencing any major problems with the OS, or maybe with apps which are not compatible, but thats hardly Apple's fault if developers don't update their apps.

German special characters not displaying on page instead of that Question marks displayed

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Hello core team,
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