MAC : Keyboard viewer

For my earlier post on Switching between windows in MAC, I pasted an image to depict the key strokes to use for switching between windows of the same application on MAC. If you ever wish to publish something like this, I am sure you will have to hunt for some keyboard images. Well, that's not required. You can use the inbuilt keyboard viewed of MAC and create an image out of it using screen captures. More on screen captures later. For now, follow these simple steps to set up the keyboard viewer.

• Open System Preferences application and click on Language and Region

• Click on Keyboard Preferences button that you will find towards the bottom of this window

• Move to the Input Sources tab and select "Show input menu in menu bar"

• Once you do this, you will see a new item added to your menu bar. Select the option of "Show Keyboard Viewer" from its drop down menu

• And behold ! You get your keyboard displayed on your screen. You can also use it to type text in any application. And of course, it also highlights the keys that you press. 

Another advantage of this keyboard viewer, is that you get to learn the symbols for various keys on MAC, like :

•   ⌃   : Corresponds to "Control" key
•  ⌥   : Corresponds to "Option" key
•  ⌘   : Corresponds to "Command" key