Instead, keyboard letters and numbers are used. Regarding your question, you may have to use the On-Screen Keyboard on Windows. The Alt key to the right of the space bar on the Mac keyboard equals the Alt Gr/right Alt key in Windows. It is not used to enter numeric character codes. The function keys can be activated in the session by pressing additionally the FN key (e.g.: FN + F1). On a Macintosh, the Alt key is called the Option key. It is important to make sure the Num Lock key is on. These extended keyboard characters are useful for persons using foreign languages, mathematics, currency symbols, business use, etc. For example, holding down Alt while typing 0225 ( Alt+ 0 2 2 5) on the numeric keypad will result in á, the character at 225 in the codepage. In Microsoft Windows, holding down the Alt key while typing in numbers (often referred to as Alt codes) on the numeric keypad allows the user to type special characters not normally available on the keyboard. In this example, you want the Option key (the Alt key on. Additionally, in many traditional GUI environments, including Microsoft Windows, Alt is used to access pull-down menus. The Command keys are located in between the Alt keys and the spacebar on the standard Mac. Other well-known combinations which the Alt key is part of include Alt-F4, to close a window, and Alt-Tab, to switch between windows.
The X Window System also uses Control-Alt-Backspace, which usually causes the X server to shut down or restart. If you use Mac OS, Alt+Cmd+Esc is used almost the same way. The Alt key is well known as part of the Control-Alt-Delete key combination, which in some operating systems brings up a task manager.
#WHATS THE ALT KEY ON MAC MAC OS X#
Option key's behaviour in Mac OS X differs slightly from that of the Windows Alt key (it is used as a modifier rather than to access pull-down menus, for example).
Alt is used in non-Mac software, such as Unix and Windows programs, but in OS X it is always referred as Option key. Since the 1990s Alt has been printed on the Option key on most Mac keyboards.
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