Some characters not shown on the keyboard button. It can be such symbols as: double arrows "and", degree sign °, copyright symbol and others.
In order to type characters on the keyboard that are missing, you can use different methods.
The simplest of which is to use the MS Word text editor or Excel spreadsheet from the Office suite.
To do this, just enter it and select the Insert tab
and then either leave it as it is, or copy it to another program.
Second way is to use a special utility in Windows called symbol tableand you can find it:
Start - All Programs - Accessories - Utilities
and then at the very end of the list
This window will appear, in which all the characters from the various fonts installed on the system are present:
After you select the desired symbol from the table (by clicking LMB on it) (1), you need to click on the button Choose (2) and it will appear at the bottom in the field "To copy:" (3), then press the button Copy(4) and the desired symbol will be saved in the clipboard for its subsequent insertion wherever you need.
Small addition.
In order not to search for a specific type of characters, you can put a grouping.
For example, I want only Symbols and Signs to be displayed.
1) Check the box "Additional parameters"
2) Character set - Unicode
3) Grouping - Unicode Ranges
4) A window will appear with the choice of Grouping, in which we select "Symbols and icons"
Here, now there are only symbols and icons in the table. Of course, if you don't want symbols, but arrows, mathematical operators, punctuation, etc. - then put this filter in the grouping.
The third way is for the lazy.
The fact is that in Windows there are special keys for quickly inserting these very symbols, for example:
only these hotkeys are used not for every icon, but for some.
| Alt + 0167 | § paragraph | Alt + 0176 | ° degree |
| Alt + 0169 | copyright sign | Alt + 0137 | ‰ ppm sign |
| Alt + 0153 | ™ trademark mark | Alt + 0177 | ± plus or minus |
| Alt + 0215 | × multiplication sign | ????? Alt + 0247 | ÷ division sign |
| Alt + 0126 | ~ tilde | Alt + 0136 | € euro sign |
| Alt + 0174 | ® Registered | Alt + 0167 | § paragraph |
| Alt + 0171 | « open quotes | Alt + 0187 | » closed quotes |
An important note here: in order to insert a character that is not on the keyboard, you need to hold down the key Altand then press the 4 digits after the plus sign on digital block keyboard. Of course, you must have Num Lock enabled for this block to work.
Also, if it does not work, then try with an English keyboard layout.
Of course, this is not the entire list, this is just for information.
Especially for visitors to my site, I have compiled a small list, which includes not only the above symbols, but also many others. And for convenience, I made it in a simple Notepad and packed it into an archive.
Well, for the very lazy, a small selection - just copy and paste.
Emoticons
☺ ☻ ☹ ㋛
ソ ッ ヅ ツ ゾ シ ジ ت ټ 〠
͡๏̯͡๏ ͡๏̮͡๏ ٩(̾●̮̃̾͡.̃̾)۶ ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾.̃̾)۶ (.̪●) 鸒
Arrows
▲ △ ▷ ▼ ∇ ▽ ◀ ◁
↔ ↕ ← ↖ ↗ → ↘ ↓ ↙ ⇦ ⇧ ⇨ ⇩⇐ ⇑
⇒ ⇓ ⇔ ⇕ ⇖ ⇗ ⇘ ⇙ ⇚ ⇛ ⇄ ⇅ ⇆ ⇇ ⇈ ⇉ ⇊
↰ ↱ ↲ ↳ ↴ ↵ ↶ ↷ ➜ ➡ ➨
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Signs
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There are quite a few keys on the keyboard with which we type text. And each of them is needed for something. In this lesson we will talk about their purpose and learn how to use them correctly.
Here is a photo of a typical computer keyboard:
Keypad buttons meaning
Esc. The full name of this key is Escape (pronounced "Escipe") and it means "Exit". With it we can close some programs. To a greater extent, this applies to computer games.
F1-F12. In the same row with Esc there are several buttons whose names begin with the Latin letter F. They are intended in order to control the computer without using the mouse - only the keyboard. Thanks to them, you can open and close folders and files, change their names, copy and much more.
But knowing the meaning of each of these buttons is completely optional - most people have been using a computer for decades and have no idea about any of them.
Immediately below the F1-F12 keys, there is a row of buttons with numbers and signs (! "" #;%:? *, Etc.).
If you just click on one of them, the drawn number will be printed. But to print the sign, press the Shift button together (bottom left or right).
If the character is printed not the one you need, try changing the language (at the bottom of the screen on the right) -
By the way, on many keyboards the numbers are also on the right side. The photo shows this part separately.
They are positioned in the same way as on a calculator and are more convenient for many people.
But it happens that these numbers do not work. You press the key you want, but nothing is printed. This means that the numeric keypad is off. To turn it on, just press the Num Lock button once.
The most important part of the keyboard is the keys used to type text. They are located in the center.
As a rule, each button has two letters - one foreign, the other Russian. To print a letter in the desired language, make sure it is selected correctly (at the bottom of your computer screen).
You can also change the language in a different way - press two buttons at once: Shift and Alt or Shift and Ctrl
Win. The key that opens the Start button. Most often, it is not signed, but a Windows icon is simply drawn on it. Located between the Ctrl and Alt buttons.
Fn. This key is available in a laptop - as a rule, it is not on conventional keyboards. It is designed to work with special functions - increase / decrease brightness, volume and others.
To enable them, you need to press the Fn key and, while holding it, press the button with the desired function. These buttons are usually found at the top - on F1-F10.
Let's say I need to increase the brightness of my laptop screen. To do this, I am looking for a button on the keyboard with a corresponding picture. For me, for example, this is F6 - the sun is drawn on it. So I hold down the Fn key and then press F6. The screen gets slightly lighter. To increase the brightness even more, I press F6 again together with Fn.
How to type a large (capital) letter
To print one capital letter (capital), you need to hold down the Shift key and press the desired letter with it.
How to print period and comma
If the Russian alphabet is installed, then in order to print point, you need to press the last key in the lower letter row (on the right). It's in front of the Shift button.
To print a comma, press the same button while holding Shift.
When the English alphabet is selected, to print a point, you need to press the key that is in front of the Russian point. It usually has the letter "U" written on it. And the comma in the English alphabet is where the Russian letter "B" (before the English dot).
Text decoration buttons
Tab - Creates indentation at the beginning of a sentence. In other words, you can use it to make a paragraph (red line).
To do this, click the mouse at the beginning of the text and press the Tab key once. If the red line is configured correctly, the text will shift slightly to the right.
Used to print large letters. Located under the Tab key.
Press the Caps Lock once and release it. Try typing a word. All letters will be printed in large. To cancel this feature, press and release the Caps Lock key again. The letters will be printed small as before.
(space) - makes spaces between words. The longest button on the keyboard is below the letter keys.
According to the design rules, there should be only one space between words (not three or even two). It is not correct to align or displace text with this key. Also, a space is placed only after the punctuation mark - there should not be a gap before the mark (except for a dash).
Delete button. It erases the letters that are printed in front of the blinking stick (cursor). Located on the right side, immediately after the numbers / signs. Often there is no inscription on it at all, but just an arrow pointing to the left.
Also the Backspace button is used to move the text up.
Enter - intended to move to the next line.
Thanks to her, you can omit the text below. Enter is located under the delete text button.
Additional keys
These are keys such as Insert, Home, Page Up and Page Down, arrow buttons and others. They are located between the alphabetic and numeric keyboards. They are used to work with text without using a mouse.
The arrows can be used to move the blinking cursor (blinking stick) over the text.
Delete is used to delete. However, unlike the Backspace key, it deletes letters not before, but after the blinking cursor.
Home moves the blinking cursor to the beginning of the line and the End button to the end.
Page Up moves the flashing cursor to the top of the page and Page Down (Pg Dn) to the bottom of the page.
The Insert button is needed in order to print text over the existing one. If you click on it, the new text will be printed, erasing the old one. To undo this, press the Insert key again.
The Scroll Lock key is almost always completely useless - it just doesn't work. And in theory, it should serve to scroll the text up and down - just like the wheel on a computer mouse does.
Pause / Break almost never works either. In general, it is designed to suspend an active computer process.
All of these buttons are optional and are rarely or never used by people.
But the button can be quite useful.
She "photographs" the screen. Then this picture can be pasted into Word or Paint. In computer language, such a photograph of a screen is called a screenshot.
Keyboard buttons to remember
- if you press this button and, without releasing it, on any key with a letter, the letter will be printed in capital. In the same way, you can print a symbol instead of a digit: No.! () *? "+ Etc.
- after pressing this button once, all letters will be printed in large. You do not need to hold it for this. To return to the small print, press the Caps Lock again.
- indents (red line).
- space. With this button you can make the distance between words.
- drops one line below. To do this, put a blinking stick (blinking cursor) at the beginning of the part of the text that you want to move down, and press the Enter button.
- deletes the character in front of the blinking cursor. Simply put, it erases the text. Also, this button raises the text one line higher. To do this, put a blinking stick (blinking cursor) at the beginning of the part of the text that you want to move up, and click on Backspace.
All other keys on the keyboard, except for letters, numbers and signs, are used very rarely or not at all.
In the family of Windows operating systems, to enter a character missing on the keyboard into a document, press the left or right Alt key and, while holding it, type a certain number using additional numeric keypadcalled a Numpad; then release the (Alt) key ... Hence the name of such combinations follows: Alt codes or Alt sequences.
Try it; for example, press the left Alt and the number 1 on the Numpad "e - a smiley (☺) should appear:
With Russian keyboard layout, combinations work only with left Alt key; in English - with both: left and right.
Relatively speaking, there are two types Alt codes: WITHOUT leading zero and With leading zero ...
Combinations without a leading zero range from 1 to 255, then are repeated; that is, Alt + 257 is the same as Alt + 1; Alt + 258 - Alt + 2 and so on (256 is sort of a border).
Basic combinations with a leading zero range from 0128 to 0255 and differ mainly from combinations WITHOUT a leading zero in that in different keyboard layouts they may mean different symbols.
The tables show all the symbols available on different systems. Therefore, if you need exactly Alt codes,go through all tables to the end. You will definitely find what you are looking for.
Many have seen unusual and beautiful symbols adorning a name, message or social media page, but few know where they come from.
In the Windows operating system, characters that are not on the keyboard are encrypted as numbers. Pressing a number in combination with the Alt key produces a special character that will change depending on the number.
Inserting hidden symbols
Many people ask themselves the question: "How to enter characters that are not on the keyboard?" This can be done in various ways:
- using a symbol table;
- combinations of Alt with numbers;
- copying from the Internet;
- copying from text editing software (Microsoft Office);
- special online services.
symbol table
Above is a table of characters that are not on the keyboard. With its help, you can easily paste the character you like into the text, copy it to social networks.
How to open a symbol table
It is very easy to open the symbol table. First of all, you need to click "Start" and enter the phrase "Character table" in the computer search window.
Next step: click on the found phrase.
The symbol table can be easily found by knowing its location on the system. The path is as follows:
- "Start".
- All programs.
- Standard.
- Service.
- Symbol table.
In order not to constantly perform many operations and mouse clicks, you can pin the link to the table on the "Taskbar" or in the "Start" menu. This is done as follows: the cursor is hovered over the icon of the open program on the lower taskbar, the right mouse button is pressed to open additional functions, then the left mouse button should be pressed on the penultimate line (pin the program).
Using the symbol table
In the table, you can change the font, view the help, and also copy any of the provided symbols to the clipboard. To copy them, you need to double-click on the one you like, click on the "Copy" button. To insert into the text, you need to place the cursor in the part of the text where you want to place the element, click on the "Insert" menu called by the right mouse button. Or do the same with Ctrl and V.
Additional Options for Symbol Table
The functionality of the program in question contains additional parameters, to enable which you must put a checkmark. The checkbox is located below the "To copy" line. The main advantage of additional parameters is the presence of "Grouping". It allows you to very quickly search for the necessary element to insert into the text by category (monetary, punctuation, arrows, numeric, technical). For the grouping to work correctly, there must be Unicode ranges.
For example, take the infinity sign. To find it, you need to go to the grouping and select the desired category (for the infinity sign, these are mathematical operators). Double-click on it and copy to the clipboard.
Alt and number shortcuts
In order for the symbol you need to appear on the screen, you need to click on the indicated number while holding Alt. In order not to lose such a useful table, it is recommended to add it to your browser bookmarks or save it to your computer. For example, the key combination Alt and 1 gives the symbol a smiley.
Copy from the web
A very popular way to get the necessary characters that are not on the keyboard is to copy them from the web. This method is very simple and understandable for everyone, it consists of 2 steps:
- finding the desired character or smiley by creating a query in the browser's search bar;
- copy and paste to the desired location (text, message, status).
Symbols from Microsoft Office Word
You can also find original characters that are not on the keyboard in the very popular Microsoft Office Word software. This method is similar to the one described earlier. Its essence lies in the fact that first we open the Word program (it is installed on almost every computer), look for the "Insert" tab, in the menu we find the "Insert Symbol" button. After that, a window appears with a huge number of different symbols. In order to take a symbol you like from the "Word" and paste it into another place, you need to paste the required symbol on a blank sheet of the "Word", then select it and copy it (copying can be done by pressing Ctrl and C).
Online services
To diversify your page on "VKontakte", tweets and posts on "Facebook", just to please the chat interlocutor will help online services that provide the ability to quickly and conveniently select and copy the symbol, smile or sign you like.
Everything here is very simple and straightforward. Each button is a specific symbol. After clicking on any of them, the selected symbol appears in the window above. Below the window there are buttons with which you can change the characters (font, size) or perform some action (copy, "tweet", etc.). When you click Copy, the character (s) in the selection window are copied to the computer's clipboard. Only then from the buffer does the user insert them into the message.
Categories of hidden symbols
All existing characters that are not on the keyboard can be divided into the following categories:
- numbers;
- fractions;
- zodiac signs;
- musical notes;
- symbols that represent weather or precipitation;
- card;
- chess;
- snowflakes;
- flowers;
- emotions;
- arrows;
- others.
Keyboard secrets: how to write with characters that are not on the keyboard
Sometimes a situation arises when you need to use a special character in some text, but there is no key with such a character on the keyboard. How to be? There are several ways. If you are typing in a text editor Microsoft Word 2007, then everything is simple: just select the "Symbol" item on the "Insert" tab. In the drop-down list, select the desired symbol or click on "Other symbols ...". In the dialog box that opens, find the required symbol and press the "Insert" key. You can also insert by double-clicking on the selected symbol.
But what if you work in a simple Notepad editor? In this case, you need to do so. Press and hold the Alt key and use the numeric keypad to type the special character code. The number keys you need are usually located on the right side of your desktop computer keyboard and can be activated by pressing the NumLock button.
If you are working with a laptop, then these keys are the same as some keys for letters. They can be "enabled" by a special combination, as a rule, Fn + key, which says NumLock or NumLk.
Here are the codes for some of the symbols.
● Step by step:
1.Turn on the NumLock button (on the right side of the keyboard)
2. Hold Alt.
3. And at the same time holding down the alt key We type the combination on the digital block.
4. Press Alt.
5. Admiring the icon.
● On laptops without a Num Pad, open Start\u003e Programs\u003e Accessories\u003e Accessibility\u003e On-Screen Keyboard. Use virtual buttons.
● You can also use transliteration for the character set.
● The ALT key also allows you to type standard characters such as dog or bullets.
● Do not skip zeros in the code, zero must also be pressed.
● Hold down the ALT key + the combination of numbers specified in the code. You need to hold the ALT key without releasing it until you have typed all the digits of the code. Then the symbol will appear.
More symbols:
Copyright
Heart
® Reserved
℠ Service mark
℃ Celsius
℉ Fahrenheit
No. License plate
℗ Copyright records
℞ Pharmaceutical symbol
℧ Inverted Ohm
☀ Sun
☂ Umbrella
☃ Snowman
☄ Comet
★ Star (filled)
☆ Star (outlines)
☇ Lightning
☉ Sun (outline)
☊ Ascending node
☋ Descending node
☌ Pairing
☍ Opposition
☎ Phone (filled)
☏ Telephone (outline) 9743]
☐ Empty square
☑ Checkbox
☒ Square with a cross X
☓ Andrew's Cross
☚ Finger pointing to the left (filled)
☛ Finger pointing to the right (filled)
☜ Finger pointing to the left (outline)
☝ Thumb pointing up (outline)
☞ Right-pointing finger (outline)
☟ Downward pointing finger (outline)
☠ Skull and bones
☡ Warning sign
☢ Sign of radiation
☣ Biohazard sign
☤ Caduceus (rod of Hermes)
☦ Eastern Christian cross
☧ Christogram
☨ Patriarchal Cross
☩ Greek cross
☪ Moon and Star
☫ Farsi Symbol
☬ Adi Shakti
☭ Hammer and sickle
☮ Peace Sign
☯ Yin and Yang
☰ Trigram sky
☱ Trigram lake
☲ Trigram fire
☳ Thunderstorm trigram
☴ Trigram wind
☵ Trigram water
☶ Trigram Mountain
☷ Trigram earth
☸ Dharma wheel
☹ Sad smiley
☺ Cheerful smiley
☻ Black smile
☽ Growing moon
☾ Falling moon
☿ Mercury
♀ Venus (sign of a woman)
♂ Mars (male sign)
♃ Jupiter
♄ Saturn
♆ Neptune
♇ Pluto
♊ Gemini
♏ Scorpio
♐ Sagittarius
♑ Capricorn
♒ Aquarius
♔ White king
♕ White Queen
♖ White rook
♗ White elephant
♘ White horse
♙ White pawn
♚ Black king
♛ Black Queen
♜ Black Rook
♝ Black elephant
♞ Black horse
♟ Black pawn
♠ Black lance
♤ Pica (outline)
Heart (painted over) or heart
♦ Tambourine (filled)
♧ Clubs (outline)
♨ Geyser
♩ Musical quarter note
♪ Musical eighth note
♫ Connected two notes
♬ Two notes connected by a double bar
♭ Flat
♮ Natural scale sound
✁ Cut from the top
✂ Cut here
✃ Cut from the bottom
✄ Scissors
✆ Public phone
✇ Cassette
✈ Airport / plane
✉ Envelope / email
✌ Victory Sign
✍ Signature
✎ Diagonal pencil
✏ Pencil
✐ Diagonal pencil pointing up
✓ Check mark
✔ Bold check mark
✕ Multiplication sign / X
✖ Bold multiplication sign / X
✗ Slanted X
✘ Bold oblique X
✝ Roman cross
✞ Roman Cross 3D
✟ Latin cross (outline)
✠ Maltese cross
✡ Star of David
❛ Quotation mark
❜ Quotation mark (inverted)
❝ Double quotation marks
❞ Double quote mark (inverted)
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