Please, where is the '@' key on a macbook pro??

[moabfireball]

You find it's faster and more efficient to open a text file, find, then cut and paste, each of those 13 characters, than to remap the extra and appropriately positioned MacBook "Enter" key to "Alt Gr", allowing you to type those 13 characters at will in Windows, as they would be typed on any PC?

How odd. Perhaps your point was to create a complaint thread and martyr yourself, rather than find an elegant solution. I apologise for any assistance I may have inadvertently provided.

You find that installing an unfamiliar piece of software while consulting with non-professional help in a foreign language with said help not able to see the problems themselves and instead troubleshooting through text always results in a fixed situation in 10 minutes or less?

How odd. Perhaps YOU may need to consider that just because you find something blindingly clear doesn't mean that it'll be incredibly obvious for other people, especially when communicated through a foreign language; after all, don't you Brits complain about us Yanks speaking in a different tongue? I do *not* apologize for my statements.

 

[psavoyaud@siteparc.com]

i have a macbook pro
i am desperately trying to figure out which key i should press in order to write the "@" symbol while working on the windows xp environment (my windows xp VM)

As I'm not sure you've found your answer since then, here is the answer :

To type an @ in Parallels 3 on a MacBook Pro with an azerty keyboard, just type :
ctrl-alt-0

Another one : for antislash, type ctrl-alt-8

Last : for #, type ctrl-alt-3

Regards.
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http://blog.siteparc.fr

 

[satyor]

As I'm not sure you've found your answer since then, here is the answer :

To type an @ in Parallels 3 on a MacBook Pro with an azerty keyboard, just type :
ctrl-alt-0

Another one : for antislash, type ctrl-alt-8

Last : for #, type ctrl-alt-3

Regards.
--
http://blog.siteparc.fr

Hi,

no i haven't found the answer yet ;-)

thanks very much!!

just some minor differences on my keyboard:

@ is ctrl-alt-2
# is as you suggest
\ is not available... well, hitting "ctrl-alt-8" gets me }

i tried all the other possible keys, no way, i cannot reproduce \

thanks again for the good advice

 

[swissbaldo]

on-Screen Keyboard

Have you tried to run the On-Screen Keyboard program (Under Accessories\Accessibility).

With it you can have a look at the keyboard layout that wxp is handling in your parallels session.

If you find your character there, even if you don't get the key combination on the macbook because you miss the Alt-Gr key, you still get to insert the character in every program you want, without copypasting.

 

[satyor]

hi swissbaldo,

thanks for your suggestion

actually this was the very 1st thing i tried. unfortunately, on the displayed keyboard there are no such keys as '@' '#' '€' '$' ...


and, for everybody to know the way parallels treat their clients: i emailed parallels staff about this problem more than 2 months ago. they didn't pay attention to my mail. they just did not answer it.

so, my advice: don't pay for parallels software. it is NOT worthy. once you've bought the software, you are treated like sh... sorry, but this is the way it is. i am extremely angry.