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(Note: this does not include the many, many characters from non-western European languages – otherwise it would be 100,000s of codes long.)īelow is a nice ASCII-formatted table of the most commonly-used symbols and characters.

These Alt codes are also helpful if you have a keyboard with a stuck or missing key.īelow I will break down the entire list of alt keys by category. You can type a lot of characters that may not have a corresponding key on your keyboard – such as European language alphabetic characters, ASCII symbols, and even Chinese characters (also known as Hanzi, Kanji, or Hanja). In Windows, you can type any character you want by holding down the ALT key, typing a sequence of numbers, then releasing the ALT key.

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Three Microsoft Office function key alternatives Try the old Alt + X trick for Word and Outlook We entered an emoji using the Windows 11/10 Emoji Panel and it stubbornly refused to show the character code via Alt + X.Įmoji entered in other ways (Alt + X or Insert | Symbol) worked with the Alt + X reveal trick. The Alt + X reveal trick doesn’t always work for emoji, for unknown reasons. The Alt + X action (in either direction) appears in the Undo list as ‘Toggle character code” Doesn’t always work for Emoji Show the character again by pressing Alt + X a second time or Ctrl + Z (Undo). Any more than one, even a space, and Alt + X won’t work. Select a single character, letter or emoji.Office Watch has been banging on about this trick for years, see Try the old Alt + X trick for Word and Outlook Alt + X reveals the Unicode numberĭid you know Alt + X works in reverse? Alt + X will display the Unicode value for a selected character in Microsoft Word.

Type the Unicode value then Alt + X to make that symbol appear. In Word and Outlook message editor, Alt + X is a way to quickly type any symbol.

Understand why a particular symbol is appearing in a document or email.

Similar emoji such as the various Grinning faces 😀😆😅😃😄.

different hyphen characters, Em-dash, En-dash, hyphen, hyphen-minus and minus sign.

Some symbols look very similar, the Unicode number shows the exact symbol is displayed.

Occasionally it’s good to know the true Unicode value for a character, symbol or emoji.

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Software like Microsoft Word handles all that for you. Most of the time you don’t need to know the Unicode value.

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