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How to alt

Some people don’t know how to alt – to create special alt symbols and alt characters with your keyboard. Well it’s simple:

How to alt

Basically, you press the ‘alt’ key and then type a number code on the numeric keypad (the number pad on the right hand side of the keyboard). If you’re on a laptop, you have to press ‘NumLk’ (Number Lock) first.

So, how to alt is pretty easy – the problem is, which special characters and alt codes are there? Here are a few alt codes:

Hold ‘alt’ then press 1 – ☺

Hold ‘alt’ then press 2 – ☻

Hold ‘alt’ then press 3 – ♥

Hold ‘alt’ then press 4 – ♦

Hold ‘alt’ then press 5 – ♣

Hold ‘alt’ then press 6 – ♠

Hold ‘alt’ then press 7 – •

Hold ‘alt’ then press 8 – ◘

Hold ‘alt’ then press 9 – ○

Hold ‘alt’ then press 10 – ◙

Hold ‘alt’ then press 11 – ♂

Hold ‘alt’ then press 12 – ♀

Hold ‘alt’ then press 13 – ♪

Hold ‘alt’ then press 14 – ♫

Hold ‘alt’ then press 15 – ☼

Hold ‘alt’ then press 16 – ►

Hold ‘alt’ then press 17 – ◄

Hold ‘alt’ then press 18 – ↕

Hold ‘alt’ then press 19 – ‼ (it’s one character!)

Hold ‘alt’ then press 20 – ¶

Enjoy these alt codes and special characters!