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electradise · Jul 25, 2002, 04:03 PM

How can i typ @ ?!!!????

yeah yeah i know.......

fulmer · Jul 25, 2002, 04:40 PM

your comparatives need work, too. (American English).

<img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

electradise · Jul 25, 2002, 04:45 PM

C'mon i'm serious.
I'm typing this on a PC.
What the f**k am i doing wrong.
I know this sound stupid.
Anybody please

PeteWK · Jul 25, 2002, 04:46 PM

Nook gork a tomanog pemo dem za linkaponk.

(The most stupid answer ever)

PeteWK

electradise · Jul 25, 2002, 04:48 PM

**** you prick

electradise · Jul 25, 2002, 05:10 PM

C'mon nobody ? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

Babar · Jul 25, 2002, 05:14 PM

Option-2 ?

fulmer · Jul 25, 2002, 05:18 PM

I suggest you be more clear (or is that clearer?

) about your typing problem. You are obviously typing something. Your registration goes back more than a month; surely this isn't a new thing--this whole 'typing' revelation.

I'd start trying to type

T-R-O-L-L
and then move on to
B-A-N-N-E-D.

rampant · Jul 25, 2002, 05:26 PM

How about S-H-U-T I-T?
On a PC, you can't use shortcuts with the keyboard, but @ is still shift-2.

electradise · Jul 25, 2002, 05:29 PM

OK I just want to typ the symbol "@" on my Tibook. Like in an e-mail.
I can see the symbol on the "L" key but i don't know which key i have to use together with the "L" key.
I'm sorry but or i'm going crazy or there is something very wrong on my Mac. I'm already a member for a month cause i was lookin' for the pro's & contra's of the computer before i bought it. i know this sounds more stupid than stupid can be BUT it's driving me nuts for more than 2 hours now. Thx for your help

electradise · Jul 25, 2002, 05:32 PM

thx rampant....
It'll never happen again

PeteWK · Jul 25, 2002, 08:19 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by electradise:
thx rampant....
It'll never happen again<hr /></blockquote>Hey dillhole, your question didn't make any sense. I was responding to the level of your question. Learn how to phrase a question and maybe you'll get an intelligent answer.

PeteWK

PeteWK · Jul 25, 2002, 08:20 PM

Oh yeah, and it's spelled typE.

PeteWK

fulmer · Jul 26, 2002, 03:33 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by PeteWK:
your question didn't make any sense. I was responding to the level of your question. Learn how to phrase a question and maybe you'll get an intelligent answer.

PeteWK<hr /></blockquote>no joke! hit my response right on, pete.

fmalloy · Jul 26, 2002, 07:38 PM

The question makes a lot of sense, if you would all stop being so hostile and stop to think for a minute.

Can you possibly imagine - for just one moment - the following circumstances?

- Poor user has a foreign Ti keyboard (perhaps why the '@' symbol is on the "L" key and not where Americans would expect?)

- Poor user has the default key mapping set to US/English keyboard, hence the mapping doesn't match what's printed on the keys

- He typed the '@' from a different computer to pose his question

Sometimes it's nice to give fellow Mac users the benefit of the doubt.

PeteWK · Jul 26, 2002, 09:52 PM

Give me a break. I wasn't lashing out at the guy. I was just having fun with it. And the jerk flames me. Puleese.

PeteWK

vmarks · Jul 27, 2002, 11:56 AM

Really,

Go easy on the guy- he's frustrated, new computer and he can't figure out how to type a stupid character- wouldn't you be ticked off?

I don't have that keyboard map on my machine, but I'm guessing that he should try open-apple L, option L, control L, or shift L.
If that doesn't work, start trying them together: open-apple shift L, option shift L, and so on.

One of these will be the answer.

(lecture) when people come here with questions that even they admit sound like a stupid questions, this isn't a troll, this isn't worthy of banning- it means they want help, and feel stupid asking, when they can obviously use a computer with some level of ability.

What we should have asked is, what country did you buy the keyboard in, which keyboard mapping is it using, so we could actually solve the problem.(end lecture.)

Love Calm Quiet · Jul 27, 2002, 12:04 PM

In case you are still bothering to check this thread...

Electradise:

It was difficult to comprehend your quandry exactly. Are you trying to produce an ''@'' sign? On every keyboard I've seen since learning to type in high school the ''@'' sign is above the ''2'' -- so holding down the shift key and pressing ''2'' should give it to you.

I have *no* idea why you are talking about the ''L'' key in relation to ''@'' -- maybe somebody else here can get me up to speed on that connection?

euphras · Jul 27, 2002, 12:20 PM

On the german keyboard layout (Macintosh) the @ is located at the "L" key. Press option + L and you get the @ !!!! On german PC keyboards the @ is located at the "Q" and activated with "Alt Gr + Q" BTW.
I still wonder after all these years why you Americans are so "americo-centristic" <img border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" title="" src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" />

And: As mentioned by vmarks: It�s not fair to make jokes or to crap along with "banned" or so, when a new member has a serious question

Pat

euphras · Jul 27, 2002, 12:22 PM

...or is it the "K"? Unsure, typing on a PC at the moment

tooki · Jul 27, 2002, 01:46 PM

This is what the Key Caps desk accessory is for. You hold down the various modifier keys and it shows what character will be typed.

tooki

electradise · Jul 27, 2002, 03:30 PM

Maybe this tread is not so stupid after all.

& yes:

- i have a foreign keyboard (german) while i'm used to a pc's azerty.
- i was typing on a different computer
- sorry if i pissed somebody off but i was going crazy.....

fmalloy, vmarks, euphras thx for the support
Love Calm Quiet : There is an @ symbol on the "L" key of my keyboard.
PeteWK: you try to speak, write Dutch, Flemmish.
i'm sure i will have my laugh too...

Still going crazy though,
changed the keyboard to an azerty & changed the settings to my country but now i'm still getting other characters then where i should get them.
Thx for your help everybody !!!

PeteWK · Jul 27, 2002, 10:32 PM

Fair enough. I hold no grudge and I hope you can say the same.

PeteWK

electradise · Jul 28, 2002, 12:17 PM

off course not