How to Insert Symbols and Special Characters using ALT Key Shortcuts in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Documents? Inserting symbols and special characters like Trademark and Copyright in any Windows softwares like Word, PowerPoint and Excel is very simple with the use of ALT key in the keyboard. Probably ALT key in the keyboard is one of the least used keys but having more hidden functions. Here is the list of ALT key codes which makes the symbol insertion in Windows based computers very simple. Please drop a comment if you find some useful shortcut is missing in the below lists, we will add it in the list so that others will also get benefited. Hi, Thanks for this table. I have used the ALT key to insert special characters for years and suddenly they are inserting crazy characters for me.
For example, ALT-150 gives me a little sun character instead of an en dash. ALT-134 gives a lower case “a” with a little circle above it instead of a daggar. ALT-167 gives degree symbol instead of section mark.
Shortcut: Select one or more characters Click in front of the first character and drag across the characters you want to select Select a word Double-click the word Select a paragraph Triple-click in the paragraph Select all inline text and objects Command-A Deselect all all inline text and objects. For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts for Word on Mac, visit Apple Support. Create or Delete a Custom Shortcut in Word Microsoft Word allows for updates to the keyboard shortcuts, unlike the other Office 2016 applications. And, the process is simple as well as sensible if you use Word regularly.
Nearly everything is wrong. (I saw your ALT-25 for down arrow. Hadn’t used that one. Go figure.) I’m Googling like crazy to see if there is any solution to my problem and find no references to this behavior whatsoever.
I’m wondering if anyone here has ever seen this and knows how to fix it. Thanks for any help you can offer.
Frequently Used Shortcuts ⌘+ Z or Ctrl+ Z Undo the last action ⌘+ X or Ctrl+ X Cut selected text or graphics ⌘+ C or Ctrl+ C Copy selected text or graphics to the Clipboard ⌘+ V or Ctrl+ V Paste the Clipboard contents Option+ ⌘+ G Choose the Go To command (Edit menu) Option+ ⌘+ L Open the Spelling and Grammar dialog box F8 Extend a selection ⌘+ ` (Grave accent) Go to the next window ⌘+ Shift+ S Choose the Save As command (File menu).