Symbol shortcuts | List of ALT codes

For those who would like to know how to do the copyright symbol © or the Registered Trademark symbol ® or other things like funny faces etc.

Instructions :- press the ALT key and while the ALT key is pressed down you put in the code numbers given below from your NUMBER PAD on your keyboard - (it won't work using the numbers at the top of the keyboard) make sure your NUM LOCK is ON.

Accent	A	E	I	O	U	Y
Grave Capital	À 0192	È 0200	Ì 0204	Ò 0210	Ù 0217
Grave Lower Case	à 0224	è 0232	ì 0236	ò 0242	ù 0249
Acute Capital	Á 0193	É 0201	Í 0205	Ó 0211	Ú 0218	Ý 0221
Acute Lower Case	á 0225	é 0233	í 0237	ó 0243	ú 0250	ý 0253
Circumflex Capital	 0194	Ê 0202	Î 0206	Ô 0212	Û 0219
Circumflex Lower Case	â 0226	ê 0234	î 0238	ô 0244	û 0251
Tilde Capital	à 0195	--	Ñ 0209	Õ 0213	--
Tilde Lower Case	ã 0227	--	ñ 0241	õ 0245	--
Umlaut Capital	Ä 0196	Ë 0203	Ï 0207	Ö 0214	Ü 0220	Ÿ 0159
Umlaut Lower Case	ä 0228	ë 0235	ï 0239	ö 0246	ü 0252	ÿ 0255

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FOREIGN CHARACTERS ALT CODE

SYMBOL	NAME	CODE NUMBER
¡	Upside-down exclamation mark	0161
¿	Upside-down question mark	0191
Ç, ç	French C cedille (caps/lowecase)	0199 0231
Œ,œ	O-E ligature (caps/lowecase)	0140 0156
ß	German Sharp/Double S	0223
º, ª	Masculine Ordinal Number (Span/Ital/Portuguese) Feminine Ordinal Number	0186 0170
Ø,ø	Nordic O slash (caps/lowecase)	0216 0248
Å,å	Nordic A ring (caps/lowecase), Angstrom sign	0197 0229
Æ, æ	A-E ligature (caps/lowecase)	0198 0230
Þ, þ	Icelandic/Old English Thorn (caps/lowecase) See other Old English Characters	0222 0254
Ð, ð	Icelandic/Old English Eth (caps/lowecase) See other Old English Characters	0208 0240
« »	Spanish/French angle quotation marks	0171 0187
‹ ›	Spanish/French angle single quotation marks	0139 0155
Š š	Czech S hachek (S Caron) (caps/lowercase) See other Czech Characters	0138 0154
Ž ž	Czech S hachek (Z Caron) (caps/lowercase) See other Czech Characters	0142 0158

CURRENCY ALT CODES

SYMBOL	NAME	CODE NUMBER
¢	Cent sign	0162
£	British Pound	0163
€	Euro currency	0128
¥	Japanese Yen	0165
ƒ	Dutch Florin	0131
¤	Generic currency symbol	0164

MATHEMATICAL ALT CODES

SYMBOL	NAME	CODE NUMBER
÷	Division sign	0247
°	Degree symbol	0176
¬	Not symbol	0172
±	Plus/minus	0177
µ	Micro	0181
‰	Per Mille (1/1000th)	0137

FRACTIONS ALT CODE

SYMBOL	NAME	CODE NUMBER
¼	Fraction 1/4	0188
½	Fraction 1/2	0189
¾	Fraction 3/4	0190

SYMBOLS ALT CODE

SYMBOL	NAME	CODE NUMBER
©	Copyright symbol	0169
®	Registered symbol	0174
™	Trademark	0153
•	List Dot	0149
§	Section Symbol	0167
†	Dagger	0134
‡	Double Dagger	0135
–	en-dash	0150
—	em-dash	0151
¶	Paragraph Symbol (Pilcrow)	0182

 

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