There is a key on the iMac keyboard with this character on it: §
I have searched general lists of symbols, Mac guidebooks and Mac forums and the only mention of it I have found was in a forum in which someone asked what it meant - no-one replied.
This is driving me nuts - can anyone enlighten me?
what does this mean?
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Re: what does this mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_signTony.Williams wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:53 amThere is a key on the iMac keyboard with this character on it: §
I have searched general lists of symbols, Mac guidebooks and Mac forums and the only mention of it I have found was in a forum in which someone asked what it meant - no-one replied.
This is driving me nuts - can anyone enlighten me?
Can't say I'm any the wiser (but, before Matt says itThe section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individual numbered sections of a document, frequently used when referring to legal code.[1] Encoded as Unicode U+00A7 § Section Sign and HTML § it is also commonly called section symbol, section mark, double s, or alternatively paragraph mark in parts of Europe.[2][3]

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Re: what does this mean?
Thanks, that does ring a faint bell - one of the many things I used to know... 
