I’m a Mac newbie. Although I absolutely love my iMac G5, and most things are very intuitive, there’s one thing I can’t easily figure out.
What keystroke should be pressed to insert a page break in AppleWorks? It’s AppleWorks 6, if that makes a difference.
Next to the menu selection, there is a little icon that is supposed to clearly demonstrate what the keystroke is. It looks like an up-arrow (which is probably shift), and then a caret with a hat on it (no clue what that means)
Shift-enter for a page break, option-enter for a section break, or simply enter for a column break. Unless you have multiple columns or sections on one page, they should all be functionally the same.
The way I remember the “option” glyph (I think you described it as “the carat with a hat on it”) is to imagine a switch on a rail line – the stub on the upper-left side has the option of connecting to either the stub on the upper-right or the lower-right.
Drove me nuts trying to remember that symbol until I learned that trick…
That’s a great way to remember the option glyph…I hadn’t thought of that.
The “caret with a hat on it” glyph I was referring to, though, is different…it turned out to be the enter key. Here is a screen grab showing the glyph in question, appearing for all three of these menu shortcuts in Appleworks.
I haven’t seen this symbol outside of AppleWorks…must not be very commonly used.