Lee writes: We have a new-to-us Mac Pro that has us puzzled. Many of the keyboard keys don’t match the characters on the keys, so we have to do sleuthing by trial and error when we need to insert a hyphen or a slash or colon, etc. How can we reset the keyboard settings to the way it was manufactured?
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Hi Lee! Sounds like the previous owner of your Mac made liberal use of the keyboard settings shortcuts and other input settings available in the OS X Control Panel—and yes, with enough tweaks, the keys on your keyboard may begin playing some nasty tricks on you.
The good news, though, is that it’s relatively easy to restore the keyboard settings to the be what’s out of the box — or the default settings — and start fresh.
Want to restore the default settings for your Mac’s keyboard? Open the System Preferences window and head to the Keyboard section.
Here’s how…
- Click on the Apple menu in the top-left corner of the screen, select System Preferences, then click Keyboard.
- Make sure the Keyboard tab is selected, then click the Modifier Keys button. (This is a setting that lets you disable the Caps Lock key, among other things.) In the window that slides open, click the Restore Defaults button, then click OK.
- Next, select the Text tab, then check out the list of text shortcuts (a.k.a. “macros”) saved to your Mac. There should only be a few default shortcuts listed (such as “(c)” and “c/o”). See a lot more, or anything unusual? If so, go ahead and delete the entries you neither need nor want; just use the “-” button near the bottom of the window.
- Let’s move on to the Shortcuts tab; this is where you’ll find keyboard combinations like SHIFT + COMMAND + 3 (to take a screenshot) and COMMAND + SPACE BAR (to open the Spotlight search box). Go ahead and click the Restore Defaults button to return all your keyboard-combo shortcuts to their default settings.
- Last but not least, click the Input Sources tab and make sure your language is selected. If you’re in the U.S., for example, the “U.S.” input source should be selected at the top. Don’t see the right language? Click the “+” button in the bottom corner of the window, click a language (like “English”), then select an input source (anything from “Australian” to “U.S. International — PC.”
Hope that works, Lee. Still having trouble? Let me know!
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If you are person who need to write in more than one language, or you live in foreign country, or you are simply a translator, you'll need multiple keyboard languages in your operating system. To use them, first you need to know how to add them, and then, how to change/switch them efficiently.
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Great addition to such setup are our bilingual keyboard stickers with two languages printed on them. You can then easily write in two languages without the need to learn letters placement in mind.
So, how to add and change languages? Click on your operating system to jump to proper section:
-> Mac OS X
-> Windows Vista
-> Windows 7
-> Windows 8
-> Windows 10
Adding keyboard language
1. Open Spotlight (Cmd + space) and type 'system', then click on System Preferences, or click on Apple in top left corner of the screen and choose System Preferences from menu.
2. Click on Keyboard.
3. Switch from Keyboard to Input Sources tab, and then click on + (plus) button in bottom left corner of the window.
4. From popup choose desired language from left list, and then choose particular layout for this language from right list. Finally, click on Add button to add this language to your system.
5. You're done :)
Switching keyboard language
There is no quick method of doing this out of the box in Mac OS X. You need to manually assign keyboard shortcut to the 'switching' action.
1. Go to Keyboard in System Preferences.
2. From Keyboard switch to Shortcuts tab.
3. Click on Input Sources on the left list and check Select next source in Input menu. You'll see a little warning, because this keyboard shortcut is already used by Spotlight.
4. Click on Spotlight on the left list and uncheck Show Finder search window. Now the warning is gone.
5. That's it. Now you can switch languages by using Cmd + Opt + Space shortcut :)
Adding keyboard language
1. Click on Start menu and choose Control Panel.
2. Click on Clock, Language and Region.
3. Switch to Keyboards and languages tab and click on Change keyboards button.
4. Under Installed services, click Add button.
5. Double-click on language you want to add, then double-click on text services you want to add, and - finally - select the text services options you want to add. Click OK button.
6. That's it :)
Switching keyboard language
To set this up, right-click on the taskbar (the gray bar at the bottom on screen) and from menu choose Toolbars, and then click Language Bar. Language Bar will show up on the taskbar. Now to switch language click on language name next to little keyboard icon and from list, select desired language.
Windows 7
Adding keyboard language
1. Click on Start menu and choose Control Panel.
2. Click on Clock, Language and Region.
3. Switch to Keyboards and languages tab and click on Change keyboards button.
4. Under Installed services, click Add button.
5. Double-click on language you want to add, double-click the keyboard you want to add, and select text services options you want to add. Click OK button.
6. That's it :)
Switching keyboard language
To set this up, right-click on the taskbar (the gray bar at the bottom on screen) and from menu choose Toolbars, and then click Language Bar. Language Bar will show up on the taskbar. Now to switch language click on language name next to little keyboard icon and from list, select desired language.
Windows 8 / 8.1
Adding keyboard language
1. Use Windows + W keyboard shortcut to bring Search. In the search field type 'language', then from the search results, on the left, click on Language.
2. In the Language window, click on Add a language link.
3. In the Add languages window find desired language from the list, select it, and click Add button. Some languages are expandable, so select particular language layout you want to use.
4. You're done :)
Switching keyboard language
To switch keyboard languages simply use Windows + Space shortcut.
Windows 10
Adding keyboard language
1. Use Windows + W keyboard shortcut to bring Search. In the search field type 'language', then from the search results, on the left, click on Language.
2. In the Language window, click on Add a language link.
3. In the Add languages window find desired language from the list, select it, and click Add button. Some languages are expandable, so select particular language layout you want to use.
4. You're done :)
Switching keyboard language
To switch keyboard languages simply use Windows + Space shortcut.
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