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What the key equivalent to ~ in UK keyboard

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December 29, 2009
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A friend is unable to find the equivalent of the tilde key (~) on his UK keyboard to transform patterns but not objects when using a transform tool by holding down the tilde key (~) while dragging. Does this capabilities is available for UK?

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Correct answer inyazserg

This is the button which I use for tildas (it has these symbols \ /):

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inyazsergCorrect answer

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This is the button which I use for tildas (it has these symbols \ /):

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bukkyolawoyin

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I was able to get the tilde (squiggly or twiddle) character on a UK QWERTY keyboard by using a combination of SHIFT + Back Slash (above Enter) keys.

See attached screenshot below:

tromboniator

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If you read the OP, you'll see that the question was not how to type a tilde; rather it's what key to press to transform a pattern without transforming its enclosing path.

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katherinec32619096

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Use @

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martin-clarke

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In CS6, it's the apostrophe key, below the @ symbol ( ' )

Steve Fairbairn

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My Icelandic Mac keyboard doesn’t have a tilde-key.

But I use the <-key (to the left of Z) to manually manipulate patterns.

Use it in conjunction with Scale and Rotate tools as well as just on its own for dragging patterns.

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Creative-Red

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Got the same prob did you find out how to do this on a uk keyboard???

Jacob Bugge

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Red,

It should be over by the Enter key, with the #.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_keyboard#United_Kingdom

Ultimately, the general way of finding out how to get it to work on whichever keyboard you have is to try all keys with/without shift (and AltGr), and remember or write it down.

With so many languages/countries and Win/Mac there are so many (im)possibilities, and no one has ever made any list of just a few.

I remember that the German keyboards use the < like the Icelandic, as Monika should be able to confirm.

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Creative-Red

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Hi Jacob

You are right it is the # next to the enter but the problem is that you have to use the shift key with it and illustrator use the shift key to do other things and i cant find anywhere in the setting to change the ~ to a diffent key in illustrator.