Square brackets on the Mac - how it works

Have you bought your first Mac and are you looking for the square brackets on the keyboard? You will quickly notice that the keyboard of a Mac differs from Windows computers - the square brackets are missing on the Mac keyboard. How to create [and] anyway.

Put square brackets

With a simple key combination you can put the square brackets as needed.

• To place the bracket "[" open to the right, press the [Alt] and [5] keys simultaneously. The right-hand bracket appears at the position of the activated text.
• If you want to close the bracket "]", press the [Alt] and [6] keys simultaneously.

Other special characters must also be set on the Mac keyboard using certain key combinations. You can read more about this in this practical tip under point 5.