He was specific. it happened when he started up his mac so how can apps be open when you do that. sure you land on the finder but yeah the instructions that were given by the prior poster were accurate.
Ttake care. On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi Chad, > > In the future, please be more specific when asking questions, or it is very > difficult to help you. Helpful information would be how you came to have the > character viewer in the first place, whether it shows up permanently in an > application such as Text Edit, or if you press something to make it appear. > > I will try to do my best, though. > > In a document or other text entry field, you can hit Command-Option-T to > display the "Character Viewer" or, as the table calls itself, "Character > Pallet". When this is in the foreground, you can choose from a table which > character to insert, and the toolbar can assist you to choose a category. You > can also add characters from various categories to your "favorites" to make > it more efficient if you quickly need access to characters from a huge list > of categories, without having to switch between the categories. These are > separated by tabs. One tab contains your favorites, and the other tab enables > you to select by category. > > To disable Character Viewer, do the following: > > 1. Open up System Preferences<Language and text, and click the "Input > Sources" tab. > 2. Vo-Right to the "Input Menu" table. > 3. Check the checkbox for the "Keyboard and character viewer" options. This > should get rid of it. > > You can still see the menu options in edit, though, as well as use the > command which seems strange. Also, to close it, you can navigate all the way > to your left and hit the "Close" button. When you use Command-Option-T or the > "Special CHaracters" menu item in "Edit", you will also still see it. That > doesn't really make sense to me, but that's how you're supposed to disable > and enable it. Also, if you go into "Keyboard" preferences and select the > "Keyboard" tab, you will see a checkbox that says "Show Keyboard & Character > Viewer in menu bar" though even if you uncheck this, it will not disappear > from the menu. That seems kind of weird, but at least you can close it. > > Regards, > Nic > Mobile Me: [email protected] > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Apr 21, 2010, at 4:26 PM, chad baker wrote: > >> Hi lately when i start up my macbook i get the character pallet toolbar. >> Is there a way to get rid of it? >> thanks >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
