How to Make Keyboard Bullets, Copyright, Trademark,
Hearts, French Accents, & Other Symbols with the Alt Key
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Do you ever need to type symbols
or foreign letters that aren't on your
computer keyboard?
Here's a
quick tutorial with three ways for creating keyboard symbols
including Copyright, Trademark, Registered, hearts, bullets,
smiley faces, French, German and Spanish accents, currency, "en"
and "em" dashes, Wingdings, Dingbats and more. For a long time, I never knew the secret to these "missing" keyboard symbols... until one day I was given a list of them. Ah-ha! No more mystery. Secret revealed. And now I'm giving away the "secret" to you. Actually, there are three methods you can use:
(1) How to Use the "Insert" Function:
In many Windows programs (including Word,
Publisher
and FrontPage), there's an easy way to insert symbols for copyright, trademark,
cents and French, German and Spanish accents.
Another method is to use the "Character Map" to copy and paste the required symbols. In Windows (XP) you'll find the Character Map by clicking on the Windows Start Menu, then All Programs, then Accessories, System Tools and Character Map. The Character Map box pops up.
Choose the font you wish to use from the
drop-down menu at the top. Place your curser where you'd like to insert the
symbol, click on the symbol you wish to insert, click on the Select
Button, then the Copy Button and then paste the symbol onto your
page (using Edit, Paste or the "Control v" shortcut). You'll also see the Alt
Key shortcut at the bottom of the Character Map, for future reference.
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Another way is to use the "Alt" key and numbers - making sure to
use your numeric keypad, not the
numbers on the top of the keyboard. NumLock needs to be ON.
(If you don't have a numeric keypad on your computer keyboard, you can
still use the insert function - see above.)
The basic symbols below will work with
most text fonts.
Copyright (©) is
Alt, 0, 1, 6, 9 Pound (£) is Alt 0, 1, 6, 3 French accent (ç) is Alt, 0, 2, 3, 1 French accent (è) is Alt, 0, 2, 3, 2 French accent (é) is Alt, 0, 2, 3, 3 French accent (ê) is Alt, 0, 2, 3, 4 German accent (ü) is Alt, 0, 2,
5, 2 (See the longer list of French, German and Spanish accents below.)
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on this page is offered for free.
You Don't
Need Multiple Keyboards...
¡ - 0161 See graphic text symbols, such as ♥ ♫ and ☺ below.
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In print publications such as flyers, it's helpful to know how to make check
boxes, checkmarks or scissors (for coupon cutting). You get these symbols
with Wingding (comes with Word) and Dingbat fonts that let you
add even more pizzazz to your documents with hearts, stars, arrows, fancy
bullets, spacers and more.
A
few Dingbat-style symbols come with your text fonts! Smiley face☺ is Alt, 1 Heart ♥ is Alt, 3 Diamond ♦ is Alt, 4 Club ♣ is Alt, 5 Spade ♠ is Alt, 6 Bullet • is Alt, 7 Bullet ◘ is Alt, 8 Music Notes ♫ is Alt, 1, 4 Sun ☼ is Alt, 1, 5
(Heart border = Alt, 3 repeated, using Times New Roman 12 point
font.)
** (The Winging symbols don't show up in Firefox, but your CAN see them with Internet Explorer.) WINGDINGS (comes with Microsoft Word, Publisher): Either use the "Insert" function or the following sampling of keyboard shortcuts: Pencil ( ! ) is Alt, 0, 3, 3 Scissors ( " ) is Alt, 0, 3, 4 Envelope ( * ) is Alt, 0, 4, 4 Smiley face ( J) is Alt, 0, 7, 4 Yin-Yang ( [ ) is Alt, 0, 9, 1 Check box ( o) is Alt, 0, 1, 1, 1 Bullet ( v) is Alt, 0, 1, 1, 8 Small bullet ( w ) is Alt, 0, 1, 1, 9 Divider ( –) is Alt, 0, 1, 5, 0 Divider ( —) is Alt, 0, 1, 5, 1 Bullet ( Ÿ ) is Alt, 0, 1, 5, 9 Bullet ( § ) is Alt, 0, 1, 6, 7 Astrological Symbols: from ^ to i (Alt 9, 4 to Alt 1, 0, 5) vvvvvvvvvvvvv (Alt, 0, 1, 1, 8 in Wingdings repeated)
** (The Dingbats symbols don't show up in Firefox, but your CAN see them with Internet Explorer... if you have the Dingbats font.)
ITC Zapf Dingbats
(including hearts):
Either use the "Insert" function as instructed above, or the following sampling of keyboard shortcuts (you'll find more at Insert, Symbol):
Heart symbol (¤) is Alt 0, 1, 6, 4 Heart symbol (ª) is Alt 0, 1, 7, 0 Divider heart symbol ( ¦ ) is Alt, 0, 1, 6, 6 Divider heart symbol (§) is Alt, 0, 1, 6, 7 Scissors symbol ( " ) is Alt, 0, 3, 4 (for coupon cutting) Checkmark symbol ( 4 ) is Alt, 0, 5, 2 X Checkmark Symbol ( 8 ) is Alt, 0, 0, 5, 6 Star Symbol ( H ) is Alt, 0, 7, 2 Check Box Symbol ( o ) is Alt, 0, 1, 1, 1 Arrow Symbol ( Ü ) is Alt, 0, 2, 2, 0 Another Cool Bullet (
u
) is Alt, 0, 1, 1, 7
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