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Mac Forum / General / General / February 2006Where is the pipe
I have a customer that is using a Mac, and has downloaded a database that is pipe delimited. She is trying to import it into Excel, but cannot find the pipe on her keyboard. It is not where it is on the IBM keyboard, and I can find no keyboard layouts on the Apple site. Can someone tell me what to tell her. Thanks, Marshall > I have a customer that is using a Mac, and has downloaded a database > that is pipe delimited. She is trying to import it into Excel, but > cannot find the pipe on her keyboard. It is not where it is on the IBM > keyboard, and I can find no keyboard layouts on the Apple site. > > Can someone tell me what to tell her. I think it may have moved, physically, a couple of times over the last two decades, but assuming a US layout it'll be shift-backslash which, at least on recent keyboards, is above the return key. Greg  Signature"Congurutulation!!!" - The subject line on some spam I received last night. I have no idea what it means, but it's such a cool "word" (by which I mean pronouncable sequence of letters) regardless. > > I have a customer that is using a Mac, and has downloaded a database > > that is pipe delimited. She is trying to import it into Excel, but [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > two decades, but assuming a US layout it'll be shift-backslash which, at > least on recent keyboards, is above the return key. Darn, that is where it is on my IBM keyboard, and she said it was not there on hers. Thanks anyway, Marshall > Greg > > -- > "Congurutulation!!!" - The subject line on some spam I received last night. > I have no idea what it means, but it's such a cool "word" (by which I mean > pronouncable sequence of letters) regardless. > > I think it may have moved, physically, a couple of times over the last > > two decades, but assuming a US layout it'll be shift-backslash which, at > > least on recent keyboards, is above the return key. > > Darn, that is where it is on my IBM keyboard, and she said it was not > there on hers. Bear in mind that she could be using a keyboard from many different manufacturers. On my Kensington keyboard, for example, it's the key Greg described but it's to the left of the return key, not above it. SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://www.cafepress.com/macconsult,macconsult4> Mac-themed T-shirts <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart Hi Marshall, > I have a customer that is using a Mac, and has downloaded a database > that is pipe delimited. She is trying to import it into Excel, but > cannot find the pipe on her keyboard. It is not where it is on the IBM > keyboard, and I can find no keyboard layouts on the Apple site. > Can someone tell me what to tell her. ... on my PowerBook it's on alt-7, backslash is shift-alt-7 and slash is on shift-7. But that's a) on a PowerBook and b) on a Swiss-German keyboard layout. ;-) Switching to US layout moves it to shift-backslash next to the return key. Hope this helps. Signaturecul8er Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net > I have a customer that is using a Mac, and has downloaded a database > that is pipe delimited. She is trying to import it into Excel, but > cannot find the pipe on her keyboard. It is not where it is on the IBM > keyboard, and I can find no keyboard layouts on the Apple site. > > Can someone tell me what to tell her. There's always one workaround for characters you can't find on your keyboard: use the Character Palette, which is found on the flag menu on the menu bar (you may need to enable it in the International/Input Menu control panel first). Find the pipe character in the Character Palette window, select it, focus the text field you need to type the pipe character into, and finally click "Insert" in the Character Palette window. If you're going to need to do it again in future, you can even add the pipe character to the 'favourites' section of the Character Palette. > Find the pipe character in the Character Palette window, Of course, you have to know which of the many look-alikes it is. You want "punctuation, vertical line" |
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