Accent Marks, Currency & Math Symbols, Unique Punctuation: Part 1 of Fun Things You Never Knew You Could Do With Your Computer

Today I'll be sharing 3 different posts, each highlighting a "Fun Thing You Can Do With Your Computer" that you may not already know about.  Instead of putting them all together in one post, I'll be posting each one separately so if you wish to refer back to any of these, you won't have to scroll through lots of info to get to what you need.

I'm adding each of these posts to a category called Blogging Tips and Tutorials.  You'll find links to all the Blogging posts (as well as past tutorials) at the bottom of the BNOTP home page.  You'll also find them under the category heading "Renovations/Tuts" at the top of this blog.  

Hope you enjoy!  

How to Type Accent Marks, Currency Symbols and other Fun Stuff:

Do you sometimes find you need to type a word with an accent mark?  What about the occasional currency mark or degree symbol?  I discovered a while back that the "alt" key has a lot of hidden capabilities, so I thought I'd share this info with you today in case you weren't aware.  The way I discovered it was Googling "how to type an accent mark on a keyboard."  I was amazed at all the things you can type/create with the "alt" key.

Here's a brief list of some of the accent marks you can type.  To type any of these shown below, you simply hold down the "alt" key, type the numbers you see beneath the letter, then release the alt key.

For example, if you wish to type the word "macramé" in the correct form with the accent showing over the e, you would type the letters macram, and when you get to the é, hold the alt key on your keyboard, and with the alt key depressed, type the number 0233 on the numeric keypad.  Then release the alt key and the e with an accent mark above it should miraculously appear.   It's like magic!

Don't try to use the numeric keys at the top of your keyboard—that won't work.  You will need to type the numbers on the numeric keypad that's built into your keyboard.   
Update:  If you have a laptop that doesn't have a separate numeric keypad, try pressing the "Num Lock" down and then try typing these symbols (following the directions above) using the numbers across the top.  You'll find more info for typing symbols on laptops HERE.

Have fun holding down the alt key and pressing numbers to see what you can get.  (Don't forget to release the alt key after you type the number to see what appears.)  Numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6 will give you each of the 4 suits you find in a deck of cards: 3 = ♥, 4 = ♦, 5 = ♣, and 6 = ♠.    Numbers 13 and 14 will give you musical notes: 13 = ♪ and 14 = ♫.  Cute!

Below you'll find some charts showing some of the symbols/accents you can type using the alt key.   These work for computers with the Windows operating system.   Have a Mac or Apple computer?  I found THIS article and THIS article showing how to make symbols on a Mac.

Be sure to click on "click to continue reading" to see all the charts.

Alt Code for Currency Symbols:

Alt Code for Math Symbols:

Alt Code for Fractions:

Alt Code for Punctuation and Other Symbols:

(Above charts were found HERE.)  

Part 2, Fun Things You Never Knew You Could Do With Your Computer
Part 3 Fun Things You Never Knew You Could Do With Your Computer


Pssst:  If you've found this tutorial helpful, would appreciate so much if you give it a +1 in Google.  You'll find the +1 button at the end of the post.  Thanks so much in advance!

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