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I know that there is a keyboard shortcut to bring up the special characters and emoji dialog. (On my Mac you just press the function key once, but I think by default it's ctrl-cmd-space.)

However, you still have to select the emoji from an on-screen menu. I am wondering if there is a way to do it using the keyboard alone. If I want to type, say, or , is there any way to do it without using the trackpad or touch bar at all, only the keyboard?

N. Virgo
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    There is a similar question at https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332746/how-to-use-character-viewer-with-only-keyboard-and-no-mouse and at https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/183045/how-can-i-type-unicode-characters-without-using-the-mouse – Tom Gewecke Jul 20 '23 at 14:08
  • Oh gosh, I feel silly now. The character viewer can be used with only the keyboard. It does have focus when you trigger it - but only if you're actually typing in a text box at the time. So then the first answer suggested by @TomGewecke answers my question – N. Virgo Jul 20 '23 at 14:33

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I don't think so - as a window it doesn't present itself as 'frontmost'. You can't switch to it with either Cmd ⌘ ` or even the wildly random Ctrl ⌃ F4 .

If there are some you use a lot, you could set them to text replacements, with short, easy to remember triggers…

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Tetsujin
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