Okay, New to this forum so If I've stuck this in the wrong place, sorry. Been using Gedcom Census and Family Historian on the Windows 7 system via parallels. When I first installed the system I found that the keyboard worked fine on both mac and windows. I used Alt+3 to do # on both systems and it worked fine. With me so far? Except today Alt+3 has stopped working. All I get is something that goes bong! After a lot of poking around the keyboard I found that I can get # by pressing the \ key. That's fine... but now how do I get \?! What I don't understand is why it has suddenly changed from working like a mac keyboard (i.e. alt+3 for # and the slashes in their rightful place) to ... well not working! Could really do with some help on this. Fairly quickly. And no, I'm not Michael Schumacher!!
Prehaps I should have mentioned that I'm using a UK keyboard (Mac, of course), Snow Leopard, and Windows 7.
Bump and Lion! Where is the hash key? Alt-3 works under lion but not in parallels \ now maps to \ (!) So where is the hash key (#) ? (and how can I search these forums for '#'? the engine does not recognise it as a term!) Thanks.
Thanks, I couldn't use it because Windows7 Keyboard was set to "United Kingdom (apple) - Parallels", changing to "United Kingdom" solved it
I have my macbook pro keyboard and a Windows USB keyboard. The icon appears in the bottom right of the screen, just outside the system tray. It looks like a keyboard with a wire. I can't find anything that describes how to enable it, so I assume it appears automatically when more than one keyboard is present. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-vista/The-Language-bar-overview might help