Text bar from side to side above the dock

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  1. jchouinard, Sep 8, 2010

    jchouinard macrumors newbie

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    I was in Safari (or maybe on the desktop because Safari wasn't on top, I can't remember) and I was trying to do a capital P. Than a text zone (like a white line from side to side show above my dock. I was able to close it with the red button. But I want to know what this text bar was all about and what is the other key a touch (Caps+?)
     
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  2. Mal, Sep 8, 2010

    Mal macrumors 603

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    I'm guessing you enabled an alternate language (I don't know what the standard keyboard shortcut is, it used to be Cmd-Space until Spotlight came out, now I use Ctrl-Space). The ones that use an alternate script, like Japanese, will display that bar so you can see what you're entering before it inserts the characters.

    jW
     
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  3. willsylt, Sep 8, 2010

    willsylt macrumors newbie

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    Spotlight

    Hi! I'm very new to this site, and I don't even understand how I start a new thread... All I want to know is, is it possibly to use the spotlight in your menu bar without having any other application running? It only works for me if I have safari or any app running, but if only finder is running the spotlight icon in the menu bar wont come up so I can do a search.
     
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