How Do You Type Symbols Using The ALT Key?
Western English language based computer systems, including much of the Internet, use a particular character set known as US-ASCII or simply ASCII, which may or may not the contain characters you need. Recently, this ‘default” character set has been supplanted by the ISO 1 character set that contains more foreign phrase glyphs (individual characters). For use on a computer, character sets are encoded and set in a table where a positive number is assigned to each character, or glyph. Typically, a character set includes far more characters than you will use in the course of normal writing. You can access these “hidden” characters by using a modifier key, most commonly the key. Within a given character set standard, there can be many fonts and font families, and while all fonts are supposed to have all the characters from a given set, many do not, or are inaccurate, thus your results may vary depending on the font you are using. Open the Character Map utility: • • Select “Programs”, “Acces
Open the Character Map utility: • Click on the Windows Start menu. • Select “Programs”, “Accessories”, “System Tools”, then “Character Map”. • (In Windows 7 just search for character map) • Choose a font. • Double-click the character(s) you want. It is important to select the exact font you’re using in your document before selecting the symbol you wish to copy. Not all font-faces contain all possible combinations of available symbols. • Click on Copy. • Return to your document. Right-click and choose Paste or hold Control and strike V. You may need to change the font size of the character after you’ve pasted it into your document.
