
note: The right Alt key, might also be Alt Gr or Alt Car depending on your location. For example, type Alt + E to type € on a French or German keyboard. To type the alternate character on a key, press the right Alt key and the desired key.

How do I use alternate keys on my keyboard? The keys near the top of a keyboard marked ‘F1’ to ‘F12’ are function keys. Is function key a special key?įunction Key A special button on a computer keyboard that is used for a particular operation in a program. keys as standard function keys” checkbox. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Keyboard. If your keyboard doesn’t have an Fn key, try holding down the Control key.

To adjust the brightness of the keyboard light on your Mac, use the F5 and F6 keys. Otherwise, they silently do nothing at all. When the system senses low light and the keyboard is allowed to illuminate, the keys will work. These are for decreasing and increasing the brightness of the keyboard backlight. Some users on older Macs in particular prefer this, as we covered previously some time ago. If you make this change, you’ll need to press down the “FN” key on the keyboard and then press the F1, F2, F3, etc keys to perform the action that is on the keys icon (for example, changing brightness, or muting system volume).

