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Help with Microsoft Standard English (US101)

Typing International & Special Characters using the <Alt> key and the right-side numeric keypad.

<Num Lock> key must be on!

Press and hold the <ALT> key while typing the numbers shown to make the special characters:

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.. 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.

ALT CodeSymbolDescription
Alt 0128€Euro currency symbol
Alt 0131ƒFlorin, Guilder or Gulden 
Alt 0132„Base line double quote
Alt 0133…Ellipsis
Alt 0134†Dagger
Alt 0135‡Double Dagger
Alt 0136ˆCircumflex
Alt 0137‰Permille
Alt 0138ŠS caron (hacek)
Alt 0139‹Left single guillemet
Alt 0140ŒOE ligature
Alt 0142ŽZ caron (hacek)
Alt 0145‘Left single quote
Alt 0146’Right single quote
Alt 0147“Left double quote
Alt 0148”Right double quote
Alt 0149•Bullet
Alt 0150–En dash
Alt 0151—Em dash
Alt 0152˜Tilde
Alt 0153™Trademark
Alt 0154šs caron (hacek)
Alt 0155›Right single guillemet
Alt 0156œoe ligature
Alt 0158žz caron (hacek)    LINK
Alt 0159ŸY umlaut
Alt 0161¡Inverted exclamation
Alt 173
Alt 0162¢Cent
Alt 155
Alt 0163£Pound sterling
Alt 156
Alt 0164¤Currency
Alt 0165¥Yen
Alt 157
Alt 0166¦Broken vertical bar
Alt 0167§Section sign
Alt 0168¨Umlaut (dieresis)
Alt 0169©Copyright
Alt 0170ªFeminine ordinal
Alt 166
Alt 0171«Left guillemet
Alt 174
Alt 0172¬Logical Not sign
Alt 170
Alt 0173Soft hyphen (html: ­)
Alt 0174®Registered trademark
Alt 0175¯Macron
Alt 0176°Degree sign
Alt 248
Alt 0177±Plus or minus
Alt 241
Alt 0178²Superscript 2
Alt 253
Alt 0179³Superscript 3
Alt 0180´Acute accent
Alt 0181µMu or micro
Alt 230 
Alt 0182Paragraph (pilcrow)
Alt 0183·Middle dot
Alt 250
Alt 0184¸Cedilla mark
Alt 0185¹Superscript 1
Alt 0186ºMasculine ordinal
Alt 167
Alt 0187»Right guillemet
Alt 175
Alt 0188¼One quarter
Alt 172
Alt 0189½One half
Alt 171
Alt 0190¾Three quarters
Alt 0191¿Inverted question mark
Alt 168
Alt 0192ÀA grave
Alt 0193ÁA acute
Alt 0194ÂA circumflex
Alt 0195ÃA tilde
Alt 0196ÄA umlaut
Alt 142
Alt 0197ÅA ring
Alt 143
Alt 0198ÆAE ligature
Alt 146
Alt 0199ÇC cedilla
Alt 128
Alt 0200ÈE grave
Alt 0201ÉE acute
Alt 144
Alt 0202ÊE circumflex
Alt 0203ËE umlaut
Alt 0204 ÌI grave
Alt 0205ÍI acute
Alt 0206ÎI circumflex
Alt 0207ÏI umlaut
Alt 0208ÐCapital Eth
Alt 0209ÑN tilde
Alt 165
Alt 0210ÒO grave
Alt 0211ÓO acute
Alt 0212ÔO circumflex
Alt 0213ÕO tilde
Alt 0214ÖO umlaut
Alt 153
Alt 0215×Multiply sign
Alt 0216ØO slash
Alt 0217ÙU grave
Alt 0218ÚU acute
Alt 0219ÛU circumflex
Alt 0220ÜU umlaut
Alt 154
Alt 0222ÞCapital thorn
Alt 0223ßEsszet
Alt 225(sz ligature)
Alt 0224àa grave
Alt 133
Alt 0225áa acute
Alt 160
Alt 0226âa circumflex
Alt 131
Alt 0227ãa tilde
Alt 0228äa umlaut
Alt 132
Alt 0229åa ring
Alt 134
Alt 0230æae ligature
Alt 145
Alt 0231çc cedilla
Alt 135
Alt 0232èe grave
Alt 138
Alt 0233ée acute
Alt 130
Alt 0234êe circumflex
Alt 136
Alt 0235ëe umlaut
Alt 137
Alt 0236ìi grave
Alt 141
Alt 0237íi acute
Alt 161
Alt 0238îi circumflex
Alt 140
Alt 0239ïi umlaut
Alt 139
Alt 0240ðSmall Eth
Alt 0241ñn tilde
Alt 164
Alt 0242òo grave
Alt 149
Alt 0243óo acute
Alt 162
Alt 0244ôo circumflex
Alt 147
Alt 0245õo tilde
Alt 0246öo umlaut
Alt 148
Alt 0247÷Division sign
Alt 246
Alt 0248øo slash
Alt 0249ùu grave
Alt 151
Alt 0250úu acute
Alt 163
Alt 0251ûu circumflex
Alt 150
Alt 0252üu umlaut
Alt 129
Alt 0253ýy acute
Alt 0254þLower case thorn
Alt 0255ÿy umlaut
Alt 152

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  Ř (0158 ALT X ). You must press and hold down the “ALT” key while pressing the X key.

  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.)
Unicode Character Table: Arabic

Many Other Unicode Character Tables Here

Microsoft Character Map

This is useful for the infrequent accent or symbol. It is located within Windows at Start – Programs – Accessories – Character Map (OR click Start, Run, and type Charmap). After choosing a font, double click the desired character(s), click on Copy, return to your document and paste.