Microsoft Standard English (United States 101) KeyboardTyping International & Special Characters using the <Alt> key and the right-side numeric keypad.<Num Lock>key must be on! NOTE* Not all characters are available in all font faces or in all browsers - the following table is based on the Times-New Roman or Arial font face and Internet Explorer v5.5. Consult the Microsoft Character Map to see what special characters are available for different fonts on your system. These special characters also work with the Microsoft English US-International keyboard. |
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| Press and hold the <Alt> key while typing the numbers shown to make the special characters: | ||||||
| Alt 0128 | € | Euro currency symbol | Alt 0195 | Ã | A tilde | |
| Alt 0131 | ƒ | Florin, Guilder or Gulden | Alt 0196 Alt 142 |
Ä | A umlaut | |
| Alt 0132 | „ | Base line double quote | Alt 0197 Alt 143 |
Å | A ring | |
| Alt 0133 | … | Ellipsis | Alt 0198 Alt 146 |
Æ | AE ligature | |
| Alt 0134 | † | Dagger | Alt 0199 Alt 128 |
Ç | C cedilla | |
| Alt 0135 | ‡ | Double Dagger | Alt 0200 | È | E grave | |
| Alt 0136 | ˆ | Circumflex | Alt 0201 Alt 144 |
É | E acute | |
| Alt 0137 | ‰ | Permille | Alt 0202 | Ê | E circumflex | |
| Alt 0138 | Š | S caron (hacek) | Alt 0203 | Ë | E umlaut | |
| Alt 0139 | ‹ | Left single guillemet | Alt 0204 | Ì | I grave | |
| Alt 0140 | Œ | OE ligature | Alt 0205 | Í | I acute | |
| Alt 0142 | Ž | Z caron (hacek) | Alt 0206 | Î | I circumflex | |
| Alt 0145 | ‘ | Left single quote | Alt 0207 | Ï | I umlaut | |
| Alt 0146 | ’ | Right single quote | Alt 0208 | Ð | Capital Eth | |
| Alt 0147 | “ | Left double quote | Alt 0209 Alt 165 |
Ñ | N tilde | |
| Alt 0148 | ” | Right double quote | Alt 0210 | Ò | O grave | |
| Alt 0149 | • | Bullet | Alt 0211 | Ó | O acute | |
| Alt 0150 | – | En dash | Alt 0212 | Ô | O circumflex | |
| Alt 0151 | — | Em dash | Alt 0213 | Õ | O tilde | |
| Alt 0152 | ˜ | Tilde | Alt 0214 Alt 153 |
Ö | O umlaut | |
| Alt 0153 | ™ | Trademark | Alt 0215 | × | Multiply sign | |
| Alt 0154 | š | s caron (hacek) | Alt 0216 | Ø | O slash | |
| Alt 0155 | › | Right single guillemet | Alt 0217 | Ù | U grave | |
| Alt 0156 | œ | oe ligature | Alt 0218 | Ú | U acute | |
| Alt 0158 | ž | z caron (hacek) LINK | Alt 0219 | Û | U circumflex | |
| Alt 0159 | Ÿ | Y umlaut | Alt 0220 Alt 154 |
Ü | U umlaut | |
| Alt 0161 Alt 173 |
¡ | Inverted exclamation | Alt 0222 | Þ | Capital thorn | |
| Alt 0162 Alt 155 |
¢ | Cent | Alt 0223 Alt 225 |
ß | Esszet (sz ligature) (sharp "s") LINK |
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| Alt 0163 Alt 156 |
£ | Pound sterling | Alt 0224 Alt 133 |
à | a grave | |
| Alt 0164 | ¤ | Currency | Alt 0225 Alt 160 |
á | a acute | |
| Alt 0165 Alt 157 |
¥ | Yen | Alt 0226 Alt 131 |
â | a circumflex | |
| Alt 0166 | ¦ | Broken vertical bar | Alt 0227 | ã | a tilde | |
| Alt 0167 | § | Section sign | Alt 0228 Alt 132 |
ä | a umlaut | |
| Alt 0168 | ¨ | Umlaut (dieresis) | Alt 0229 Alt 134 |
å | a ring | |
| Alt 0169 | © | Copyright | Alt 0230 Alt 145 |
æ | ae ligature | |
| Alt 0170 Alt 166 |
ª | Feminine ordinal | Alt 0231 Alt 135 |
ç | c cedilla | |
| Alt 0171 Alt 174 |
« | Left guillemet | Alt 0232 Alt 138 |
è | e grave | |
| Alt 0172 Alt 170 |
¬ | Logical Not sign | Alt 0233 Alt 130 |
é | e acute | |
| Alt 0173 | Soft hyphen (html: ­) | Alt 0234 Alt 136 |
ê | e circumflex | ||
| Alt 0174 | ® | Registered trademark | Alt 0235 Alt 137 |
ë | e umlaut | |
| Alt 0175 | ¯ | Macron | Alt 0236 Alt 141 |
ì | i grave | |
| Alt 0176 Alt 248 |
° | Degree sign | Alt 0237 Alt 161 |
í | i acute | |
| Alt 0177 Alt 241 |
± | Plus or minus | Alt 0238 Alt 140 |
î | i circumflex | |
| Alt 0178 Alt 253 |
² | Superscript 2 | Alt 0239 Alt 139 |
ï | i umlaut | |
| Alt 0179 | ³ | Superscript 3 | Alt 0240 | ð | Small Eth | |
| Alt 0180 | ´ | Acute accent | Alt 0241 Alt 164 |
ñ | n tilde | |
| Alt 0181 Alt 230 |
µ | Mu or micro | Alt 0242 Alt 149 |
ò | o grave | |
| Alt 0182 | ¶ | Paragraph (pilcrow) | Alt 0243 Alt 162 |
ó | o acute | |
| Alt 0183 Alt 250 |
· | Middle dot | Alt 0244 Alt 147 |
ô | o circumflex | |
| Alt 0184 | ¸ | Cedilla mark | Alt 0245 | õ | o tilde | |
| Alt 0185 | ¹ | Superscript 1 | Alt 0246 Alt 148 |
ö | o umlaut | |
| Alt 0186 Alt 167 |
º | Masculine ordinal | Alt 0247 Alt 246 |
÷ | Division sign | |
| Alt 0187 Alt 175 |
» | Right guillemet | Alt 0248 | ø | o slash | |
| Alt 0188 Alt 172 |
¼ | One quarter | Alt 0249 Alt 151 |
ù | u grave | |
| Alt 0189 Alt 171 |
½ | One half | Alt 0250 Alt 163 |
ú | u acute | |
| Alt 0190 | ¾ | Three quarters | Alt 0251 Alt 150 |
û | u circumflex | |
| Alt 0191 Alt 168 |
¿ | Inverted question mark | Alt 0252 Alt 129 |
ü | u umlaut | |
| Alt 0192 | À | A grave | Alt 0253 | ý | y acute | |
| Alt 0193 | Á | A acute | Alt 0254 | þ | Lower case thorn | |
| Alt 0194 | Â | A circumflex | Alt 0255 Alt 152 |
ÿ | y umlaut | |
Inserting characters by using hexidecimal Unicode values
If you know the *Unicode (hexadecimal) value of any character, you can use the "ALT X" keyboard shortcut to enter the character directly in your document in some programs such as Microsoft Word. This is particularly useful for all special characters that are not included in the list above (such as the R-hacek ? (0158 ALT X )). (You must press and HOLD DOWN the "ALT" key while pressing the X)
1. Type the 4-digit Unicode (hexadecimal) value of the character, including the leading zero if applicable. (Optionally, the value string can also begin with U+)
2. Press "ALT X" - this is the ALT key and the X key at the same time.
Microsoft Word, Wordpad and some other applications will replace the string to the left of the insertion point with the character you specified.
*(Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By using more than one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages in the world to be represented by using a single character set.)