Keyboard symbols
You can type special symbols using alt shortcuts.
Alt key shortcuts
Keyboard symbols - are text characters that you can input by typing their Alt key shortcuts (also called Alt codes). You can input defferent useful symbols. But that's mostly helpful when you need them.
Advantages of this symbol writing method
- You can remember the code and write those symbols anytime you want.
- It's tricky.
Disadvantages
- Shortcuts are hard to remember.
- Only about 200 cool symbols.
- Work only on Windows.
Cool symbols
A great way to input cool symbols is by copying out Unicode symbols. You can find about a hunder of those in my facebook symbols reference. Though, those are mostly used for facebook profiles and stuff, not for work and disadvantages are that it's hard to input them from keyboard (that's why you should just bookmark that page and copy them out) and that some part of them can't be read on some builds of Windows XP and older systems because some don't have proper prints installed. But as time goes the problem fixes cause computers get tougher and programmers make those more sophisticated prints available by default so that might not be a problem in the nearby future and all those prints are available in Windows 7 you know (I'm not sure about Vista, cause I didn't use it, maybe there 2). The problem is most common for XP users and, pitty, by the day I wrote this text - start of year 2010, more than 40% of people coming to my site had that system. Advantages are that there are the COOLEST keyboard symbols out there. You won't even imagine them looking at this page =)
Advantages of this symbol writing method
- There's a hell lot of them.
- They look realy cool.
Disadvantages
- Some systems don't recognise them.
- You'll have to copy them out every time you want to put them.
So make your choice, or get "the best of both worlds". =)
How to write keyboard symbols with keyboard?
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Steps
If you're using laptop - please, read about laptop alt symbols.
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Find the code.
Find the numeric code that stands for the symbol you want to write. You can see all possible codes listed in the section below.
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Enable Num Lock.
On usual keyboards Num Lock is a button located on the right side (on Num Pad). When you'll enable it, the green Num Lock indicator will shine on.
- Press Alt button.
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Type that code on Num Pad.
Hold Alt key pressed and (while holding) enter the numeric code for the symbol that you want to input. The code needs to be entered on the Numeric Pad - right key pad on usual keyboards.
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Release Alt key.
If you did everything right then the symbol should have been inserted after you've released the Alt key. If it didn't work when you typed the code while holding right Alt key - try holding the left one.
If something's still wrong - re-read the guide or take a look at my full article on how to do symbols by Alt codes.
You might also like to find out about other symbols.
Full keyboard symbols list
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* I marked some symbols with red color, because it seems, like I can't type some symbols for some reason. Were there changes in Windows and things now differ, or what? If somebody knows what's going on with Alt codes - please, tell me.
Copy-paste symbols
Collection of computer text symbols. All facebook symbols. My large hand-made list of more than a hundred cool characters. Truly amazing! ^.^
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For Mac, Linux users
Mac alt codes. How to type symbols from keyboard on Mac OS. Article describes how to make symbols on a Mac computer.
Wonder how to type alt codes on Linux? There are no alt codes for Linux. You can write symbols using codes in a different similar way though. CTRL + ALT + keycode creates characters.
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