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Spicing up your blog and comments with special characters, part 2

My owner is a marketing & business consultant in San Diego. I'm so used to doing ALT character codes without thinking about them that I didn't realize that some of the codes that I used in my original post were actually four-digit ALT codes rather than three-digit ALT codes.

So being the nice guy that I am, following is the list of four-digit ALT codes, which is where the © and ® symbols appear.

For those of you who left comments in my original post claiming that your laptop computer doesn't have a number keypad, well, look again. I've never seen a laptop computer without a numeric keypad, but it doesn't look like your typical numeric keypad, and you have to know how to access it.

Here's the numeric keypad on one of my laptop computers:

Laptop numeric keypad

See the blue numbers on the 7, 8, 9, U, I, O, J, K, L, and M keys? That's your numeric keypad. Here is how to make your numeric keypad work. Look for the blue function in the following picture, lower left. It's abbreviated Fn:

Function key on a laptop computer

Press the function key and all those keys with the blue letters and symbols on them should work. Some computers force you to hold the function key down while hitting the other keys, some use the function key as a toggle key.

My next post will show you how to get billions of special symbols, limited only by the fonts on your computer.

0128 - €
0131 - ƒ
0132 - „
0133 - …
0134 - †
0135 - ‡
0136 - ˆ
0137 - ‰
0138 - Š
0139 - ‹
0140 - Œ
0142 - Ž
0149 - •
0153 - ™
0154 - š
0155 - ›
0156 - œ
0158 - ž
0159 - Ÿ
0161 - ¡
0162 - ¢
0163 - £
0164 - ¤
0165 - ¥
0166 - ¦
0167 - §
0168 - ¨
0169 - ©
0170 - ª
0171 - «
0172 - ¬
0174 - ®
0176 - °
0177 - ±
0181 - µ
0182 - ¶
0188 - ¼
0189 - ½
0190 - ¾
0191 - ¿
0192 - À
0193 - Á
0194 - Â
0195 - Ã
0196 - Ä
0197 - Å
0198 - Æ
0199 - Ç
0200 - È
0201 - É
0202 - Ê
0203 - Ë
0204 - Ì
0205 - Í
0206 - Î
0207 - Ï
0208 - Ð
0209 - Ñ
0210 - Ò
0211 - Ó
0212 - Ô
0213 - Õ
0214 - Ö
0215 - ×
0216 - Ø
0217 - Ù
0218 - Ú
0219 - Û
0220 - Ü
0221 - Ý
0222 - Þ
0223 - ß
0224 - à
0225 - á
0226 - â
0227 - ã
0228 - ä
0229 - å
0230 - æ
0231 - ç
0232 - è
0233 - é
0234 - ê
0235 - ë
0236 - ì
0237 - í
0238 - î
0239 - ï
0240 - ð
0241 - ñ
0242 - ò
0243 - ó
0244 - ô
0245 - õ
0246 - ö
0247 - ÷
0248 - ø
0249 - ù
0250 - ú
0251 - û
0252 - ü
0253 - ý
0254 - þ
0255 - ÿ

Following are some other ALT codes:

1 - ☺
2 - ☻
3 - ♥
4 - ♦
5 - ♣
6 - ♠
7 - •
8 - ◘
9 - ○
10 - ◙
11 - ♂
12 - ♀
13 - ♪
14 - ♫
15 - ☼
16 - ►
17 - ◄
18 - ↕
19 - ‼
20 - ¶
21 - §
22 - ▬
23 - ↨
24 - ↑
25 - ↓
26 - →
27 - ←
28 - ∟
29 - ↔
30 - ▲
31 - ▼

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16 Comments on Spicing up your blog and comments with special characters, part 2

OCT

Russel - thanks for part two for these special characters...bookmarked for later use.

Russel, thanks for the information. I was trying to figure out one of the symbols just yesterday.

Thanks a million.

Thanks for posting!! I am now obsessed with symbols! ☼ Sometimes when I try to do the temp. degree-- it makes my page jump to the google sign-in--- do you know why? You are a great resource and I am now a subscriber! Can't wait for more symbols to come out--- Kathy ♥

Thanks Russell - I didn't know much about how to do create this stuff. Now I do!

This is so exciting! I never even noticed those blue numbers on my keypad. This only makes me wonder how much more I have and don't know about! I just showed my daughter and she had no idea either. I am thrilled to have this information. ☺ Thank you so much!

Russel a picture is worth a thousand words. If anyone was not sure where the keypad, your demonstration drove the point home.

I remember playing with some of those when I worked more on my PC. Still own a PC but mainly I work on my mac. I tried the different options and they don't appear to work. :-( I had forgotten all about these characters until you reminded me. Thanks! Now I'll play with them from the PC

Russ....you're a veritable cornucopia of information.....can I just say .... WOW!

OCT

Hi Russel,

I tried some of these in the comment section and it was difficult to tell that they were actually the symbols until I cut them and pasted them into a text editing software so I could enlarge them... and then there they were!

Thanks for the symbols.

Judi

I never could figure out how those little buggers hopped into a blog or anywhere else...I should have known that you techie CA folks would have the road map...recipe....solution.....!

Thank you for this uselful information, you are quickly becoming my Active Rain resource =)

Russel,

Thanks! And you are so right about laptops...They absolutely do have numeric keypads.

OCT

THANK YOU MY FRIEND! Really thought I was learning impaired when reading your post with regards to the numeric keyboard. Looked and looked for the numbers like you so graciously took a picture of and displayed. Nope couldn't see 'em, then turned the lights up, put on a pair of cheater goggles, used a magnifing glass and Eureka! there they were on the bottom right side of the keys!! These teeny tiny little numbers! Thank you kind sir, without you they would never have been discovered!

♥ ☻ BTW - Am using a Toshiba Satellite laptop. You know now of course they so obviously glare at me! LOL - P

Hi, Russel. Since I joined Active Rain, I've started carrying a camera because so often a picture will suggest a post. It amazed me how many things I had looked at all this time but had not seen. Well....how many times have I looked at my keyboard and not seen the blue numbers??? Or that blue "Fn" key??? Thank you, Thank you....GREAT information and MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

Russel, This is great information that I am certain I will use a lot. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

NOV

Hey, Folks!

Glad I could help. Some of your comments are absolutely hilarious. I'm still laughing at comments 13 and 14 from Aland Peggy Cunningham and Leslie Helm. I'm having to actually type this comment of mine instead of dictating it using Dragon Naturally Speaking like I normally do.

In additon to be a touch typist, I'm also a touch keypad/data entry person. When I'm using Excel with a bunch of numbers, I'm over there on the numeric keypad, so when I got my first notebook computer, I missed my keypad.... Until I read the instruction manual and discovered those function keys and that hidden numeric keypad. Of course, the fact that the keys are not aligned like a numeric keypad means that I usually don't do Excel on my notebook computer -- LOL.

Later today or tomorrow I'll do part three in the symbol series. It's a little more difficult, but it can be a lot of fun, and once you master the difficulty, it becomes much easier.

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