How do you type an asterisk on a Mac?

Answer 1

Depending on what region/language keyboard you have, your keyboard combination for an asterisk may be different. For the United States/English keyboard layout, you hold down shift and press the "8" key.

You can also add symbols like the asterisk by enabling the Character Viewer. First, go to your System Preferences (either by clicking the icon in the Dock, or going to your Apple menu and then clicking on System Preferences). Then, go to Language and Text (this may be called something different depending on what version of the operating system you are running, but it is the icon in the top row with a blue flag). Click on "Input Sources," and then check the box next to "Keyboard and Character Viewer."

You will now see a flag icon for your default language in the menu bar, near your battery indicator. You can click on the flag and select "Show Character Viewer," which will display a viewer for finding all the possible font symbols, glyphs, and dingbats available for the active fonts on your Mac. You can do a search for "asterisk" and see the different styles that come up, and either double-click or copy-and-paste to insert it into your current text field.