November 16, 2011

Symbols by Keyboard Keys

Always wondered how to get symbols to your text, status, tweets or any other document, unless literally opening a word document, inserting a symbol and copying it, or searching for one in Google and copying it, here's the simple trick of how you can get these following symbols, just by typing.

™, ©, ®, °, ±, ¶, ¾, ☺, ♥, ♫

Yes I am not joking, you can get these symbols done just by typing some keys.

So how is it done?

Alt + 0153  ™  Trademark Symbol
Alt + 0169  ©  Copyright Symbol
Alt + 0174  ®  Registered Trademark Symbol
Alt + 0176  °   Degree Symbol
Alt + 0177  ±   Plus-or-Minus sign
Alt + 0182  ¶   Paragraph Mark
Alt + 0190  ¾   Fraction, three-fourths
Alt + 0215   ×  Multiplication Sign
Alt + 0162  ¢   Cent Sign
Alt + 0161  ¡   Upside-down Exclamation Point
Alt + 0191  ¿  Upside-down Question Mark
Alt + 1    ☺  Smiley Face
Alt + 2    ☻  Black Smiley Face
Alt + 15   ¤  Sun
Alt + 12   ♀  Female Sign
Alt + 11   ♂  Male Sign
Alt + 6    ♠  Spade Sign
Alt + 5    ♣  Club Symbol
Alt + 3    ♥  Heart
Alt + 4    ♦  Diamond
Alt + 13   ♪  Eighth Note
Alt + 14   ♫  Beamed Eighth Note
Alt + 251   √  Square-Root  Check Mark
Alt + 236  ∞  Infinity
Alt + 24   ↑  up arrow
Alt + 25   ↓  down arrow
Alt + 26   →  right pointing arrow
Alt + 27   ←  left arrow
Alt + 18   ↕  up/down arrow
Alt + 29   ↔  left right arrow

So wasn't that easy? So start adding symbols and be more creative while you express :)

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