Playing with the Keyboard

[Koa Man]

No the kind that plays music, the one you use to type on the computer.

Ever see what different key combinations can do?

♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

♂ ♀ ◄ ↕ § ↑ ▓ ░ ▒

♪ ♫ ☼ °

There is a lot more that can be made if you play with it.

 

[lumberjack]

Almost to ∞.

 

[Old Monkey]

ß˙©ƒ∂†¥ø“‘«¿≤≤ç≈åß∂ƒ

 

[Paul B]

joih;oihoifhfiohiohiodf'IDSFHIOFSADHQho'AH[ASHOI'S;a

hmm, mine doesnt seem to do the funny stuff...

 

[Koa Man]

Paul,
Hold down your Alt key and press different number combinations,
like 6669 and this ♪ will appear when you release the Alt key. Try 9998 and you get this ♫.

You can try 3, 4 or 5 number combinations. I did not try 6 numbers yet, but I will continue to play with it. I write down the different combinations for stuff I could probably use in the future.

Have fun. ☼ É Ü ±

 

[SkwerI]

Or you can just pull up your Character Map which lists all the different characters available.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Must be a windows thing?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I can't make it work.

 

[Paul B]

Or you can just pull up your Character Map which lists all the different characters available.

That's how I have rolled when I need a special character.

 

[Che]

how do you 'pull up your character map'? I'm on XP.

The 'alt key' trick doesn't work for me.

 

[Koa Man]

Go to Start, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map.

The few characters that I use often are quicker and easier to input using the Alt and number keys. For instance, you can put the degree sign °, which I use the most, by simply holding down your Alt key and pressing 248. When you release the Alt key, ° will appear. That is way quicker than pulling the character map, locating the ° character and copying into your text.

 

[SkwerI]

In Vista it's
Start> all programs> accessories> system tools> character map
XP will be similar but I've forgotten. I know it's in the System Tools file.
I've pinned it to my start menu so I can pull it up quickly (2 clicks). I use it for the cents sign and fractions mostly.

 

[rumination]

࿇

 

[MasterBlaster]

☺

 

[Che]

Thanks. Got the character map easy, but I can't get the alt key combo thingee to work.



Eléna

 

[SkwerI]

Leon, that's cool. I thought it was a 't' until I magnified the page to 400%.

 

[Che]

♪ ♪

OK. I did some searching through very nerdy forums. Others have had problems getting tht alt code thing to work while on XP.

One suggested to make sure your Num Lock wasn't on. I turned it off. It still didn't work.

I turned it back on. ♪ It worked.

But then I turned it off. ♪ and now it STILL works.

Don't know why, but don't care. It works now.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I checked out the character map and now it's on my Start menu, groovy! §

 

[Tree Reb]

Maybe I'm just tired, but this is all Ελληνικός to me.

I might try again tomorrow.