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.

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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. 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.

There are several ways to switch between open windows. Many users reach for the mouse, point to the Taskbar, and then click the button for the window they want to bring to the foreground. Paragraph and character styles in Word are part of the basic structure of every document you create in Word. When you use either the built-in styles, or custom styles you’ve created, you might want to use the keyboard to quickly apply the styles to your content. Shortcut keys can be applied to both paragraph and character styles.

Thanks for any help you can offer.