How to alt
Some people don’t know how to alt – to create special alt symbols and alt characters with your keyboard. Well it’s simple:
How to alt
Basically, you press the ‘alt’ key and then type a number code on the numeric keypad (the number pad on the right hand side of the keyboard). If you’re on a laptop, you have to press ‘NumLk’ (Number Lock) first.
So, how to alt is pretty easy – the problem is, which special characters and alt codes are there? Here are a few alt codes:
Hold ‘alt’ then press 2 – ☻
Hold ‘alt’ then press 3 – ♥
Hold ‘alt’ then press 4 – ♦
Hold ‘alt’ then press 5 – ♣
Hold ‘alt’ then press 6 – ♠
Hold ‘alt’ then press 7 – •
Hold ‘alt’ then press 8 – ◘
Hold ‘alt’ then press 9 – ○
Hold ‘alt’ then press 10 – ◙
Hold ‘alt’ then press 11 – ♂
Hold ‘alt’ then press 12 – ♀
Hold ‘alt’ then press 13 – ♪
Hold ‘alt’ then press 14 – ♫
Hold ‘alt’ then press 15 – ☼
Hold ‘alt’ then press 16 – ►
Hold ‘alt’ then press 17 – ◄
Hold ‘alt’ then press 18 – ↕
Hold ‘alt’ then press 19 – ‼ (it’s one character!)
Hold ‘alt’ then press 20 – ¶
Enjoy these alt codes and special characters!
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Comments (34)
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it wont work
Why?!
This is BS to some degree: ASCII codes usually consist of ALT + 3 or 4 numbers. I don’t know for which app or website these ‘codes’ are for, but in Windows many applications have shortucts under alt+ one number, so in browsers, while using facebook for example, you will end up using other keyboard short-cuts, ones that do things instead of giving you those desired signs.
Google ascii codes dear readers.
Hi Mati-Ass, thanks for your comment. Please go to Facebook, click inside any input window, turn on NumLock (or use the Numbers on the right hand side of your keyboard), hold down alt (on the left hand side of your keyboard), press 1, see ☺, then stfu. Thanks.
Hello I am using a laptop Inspiron E1505 Windows XP MCE, qwerty key board without a side numpad just the with the numbers on the row up top. I cannot get the alt technique to work as well. Ive tried it with numlock on and off and still nothing u think it would only work if i did have a side numpad?
Steven, most laptops don’t have a side number pad, but they do have the ‘Num Lock’ numbers written on top of some of the other keys.
On my laptop, for example, the numbers ‘1′ ‘2′ and ‘3′ are written on ‘J’ ‘K’ and ‘L’. So when I turn on NumLock (FN + NumLk) and I press these buttons (J,K,L) it actually outputs the numbers 1, 2 and 3.
If you have a NumLk button on your laptop, it means that somewhere there you can press keys to get these symbols…keep trying!
i can’t do this..
please help me…
I’ve Hold ‘alt’ then press 1 on my laptop,
but the icon doesn’t appear..
yes, i have done the required steps. but the icon doesn’t appear
Hi.. How do you do these on Blackberry??
Hi.
I am using a Macbook. I do not have a ‘Num Lock’ key. I also do not have a number pad on the right.
Your instructions do not work for me. Anyone have ideas?
Check out:
https://chatsmileysemoticons.com/how-to-make-chat-symbols-on-a-mac for how to make some MSN symbols on a Mac!
can someone send me a full list and how to please!
Thanks, I’ve always wanted to know how!
if ur on a laptop press number lock and the numbers may be on the letters so press fn – function- press the number u want and let go and it will come up :D
u have 2 use duh number pad on the left
i mean right
err sorry and excuse me, i tried doing that with my num lock on but it just cannot work. P.S. I am using a VAIO
Baabaabaablacksheep haha :) same here ♣♣
Hello, How to make a star with an alt ?
And it worked with my laptop, thanks a lot ☺
it wont work at all. not with or without NumLk.
wont work for me either :’(
here! here! wont work for me either on laptop
Ive tried all kinds of ways.. wont work for me either!! booo!!
if your having troubles just hi-lite the character u want and copy and paste it
I have pressed the alt key 1- and nothing happens. 1- won’t print on my comment while pressing alt button. If I release alt button 1- prints but no icon. H E L P M E !!
Have a Dell with Windows 7 and no NumLk button at all, no right number keys, only number keys on upper keyboard…
The Alt key or Fn + Alt doesn’t work, I tried combinations of it…
doesn’t work for me… is there a way around this? I can cut and paste, but that’s too much hassle… :( there has to be an easier way?
Why won’t those work on AOL in writing an email? They work on Outlook Express, and in Word….but not on AOL all you get is a ? ? ?
I couldnt do it at first but i got it now!!! I feel so slow because its easy!! ☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼
It wasn’t working for me on my laptop either, until I changed the font. I have it on Arial now and all of the symbols show. Only ? I have is how do you get the other characters they tell you can show up on FB? They show a pic of a shooting star, but no “alt + a #” to show how to get it. When I copy and Paste the symbol, it just shows up as a letter.
Anyone know how to get the star?
http://www.msnsymbols.com/shapes/msn-star-symbol/
On my F11 button on my lap top there is s symbol that looks like a calculator. If you hold FN and hit F11 then it turns on the light Number Lock keys that may be over your letters…just be sure the hit FN + F11 again to shut it back off.