Symbol shortcuts in windows

It took me a while to assemble all of these get them looking good. As a developer, when I search for these codes I often get results that are image-based. These are inaccessible to people with visual disabilities, and make it hard for everyone to copy-paste the codes. The first 31 alt codes are dedicated to fun characters like happy faces, arrows, and other common symbols:. As I mentioned earlier, you can use Alt codes to type characters you could otherwise type on your keyboard.

This is helpful if one of your keyboard keys is non-operational. March 1, at AM. March 1, at PM. Matthew W. August 16, at AM. Are you, perhaps, omitting an important piece of information? Also, the number codes are different in my version of Word August 26, at PM. April 6, at PM. July 24, at PM. July 20, at AM. May 30, at PM. March 18, at AM. This is a convenient list to search, great list!!! January 20, at PM. January 22, at PM. May 10, at PM.

Can you share if I want to add 4,5,6 and so on. February 10, at PM. July 16, at PM. July 19, at PM. November 18, at AM. Thank you. I never knew these shortcuts existed! May 26, at AM. How to make shortcut for Strikethrough? March 31, at AM. July 1, at PM. March 28, at PM. Alt not working in window. February 6, at PM. February 8, at PM. December 18, at AM. Hi I want to know what the alt code for the rounding sign is. July 26, at AM. What about for check symbol, is there any alternative for it?

December 4, at PM. December 16, at PM. December 19, at AM. September 21, at AM. That is technically a square root sign… lol. July 14, at PM. July 10, at PM. Hi, Thanks for this table. Thanks for any help you can offer. May 12, at PM. Is there a shortcut key for the at sign? May 15, at PM. April 27, at AM.

April 27, at PM. Thanks for taking time to pointing, the image is changed to larger size. April 20, at PM. April 11, at PM. April 12, at PM. August 21, at AM. Is there another way to get the square foot symbol?

March 21, at PM. Control character - negative acknowledge NAK. Black rectangle. Control character - synchronous idle SYN. Up down arrow with base. Control character - end of transmission block ETB. Upwards arrow. Control character - cancel CAN. Downwards arrow. Control character - end of medium EM. Rightwards arrow, Z notation total function. Control character - substitute SUB. Leftwards arrow. Control character - escape ESC. Right angle. Control character - file separator FS.

Left right arrow, Z notation relation. Control character - group separator GS. Black up-pointing triangle. Control character - record separator RS. Black down-pointing triangle. Control character - unit separator US. Exclamation mark, factorial.

Quotation mark. Number sign, pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe. Percent sign. Left parenthesis, opening parenthesis. Right parenthesis, closing parenthesis. Asterisk, star. Plus sign. Comma, decimal separator. Hyphen, minus sign.

Full stop, period, dot, decimal point. Solidus, slash, forward slash, virgule. Digit zero. Digit one. Digit two. Digit three. Digit four. Digit five. Digit six. Digit seven. Digit eight. Digit nine. Less-than sign. Equals sign. Greater-than sign. Question mark. Commercial at, at sign. Latin capital letter A. Latin capital letter B. Latin capital letter C. Latin capital letter D. Latin capital letter E. Latin capital letter F. Latin capital letter G. Latin capital letter H. Latin capital letter I.

Latin capital letter J. Latin capital letter K. Latin capital letter L. Latin capital letter M. Latin capital letter N. Latin capital letter O. Latin capital letter P. Latin capital letter Q. Latin capital letter R. Latin capital letter S. Latin capital letter T. Latin capital letter U. Latin capital letter V. Latin capital letter W.

Latin capital letter X. Latin capital letter Y. Latin capital letter Z. Left square bracket, opening square bracket. Reverse solidus, back slash. Right square bracket, closing square bracket.

Circumflex accent. Low line, underscore. Grave accent. Latin small letter a. Latin small letter b. Latin small letter c. Latin small letter d. Latin small letter e. Latin small letter f. Latin small letter g. Latin small letter h. Latin small letter i. Latin small letter j.

Latin small letter k. Note that they only work in Microsoft Office and that you should use the non-Hex code. Windows assigns a numeric code to different accented letters, other foreign characters and special mathematical symbols. The ALT key input is used to manually insert these letters and symbols by calling the numeric code assigned to them. Page Content For information on how to type the codes, please read the detailed instructions.