Useful keyboard shortcuts

[bopdude]

Didn't know where to put this so stuck it here, feel free to move.

I was searching for a shortcut for a symbol and found a whole list of them, hope someone finds them usefull


Just remember this simple and useful shortcut. In notepad or text area, hold down the Alt key while you type 0163 from the numeric keypad (not the numbers given in one single row under function keys) and when you release the Alternate [alt] key you will get a £ sign wherever the cursor is at.

Some other Currency Symbols:

ALT+0163 = £ for British Pound Symbol

ALT+0128 = € for Euro Currency Symbol

ALT+0162 = ¢ for Cent sign

ALT+0156 = £ for Sterling Pound

ALT+0164 = ¤ for Currency symbol

ALT+0165 = ¥ for Yen Sign

Some other useful signs & symbols:

ALT+0153 = ™ for Trademark sign

ALT+0169 = © for Copyright sign

ALT+0174 = ® for Register sign

Note: Just make sure Num Lock key is on

Some Additional Signs and Symbols :-

Key code symbol Description
ALT + 189 ½ Half, 1/2 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 188 ¼ One forth, 1/4 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 190 ¾ 4-Mar Sign or Symbol

ALT + 177 ± Plus - minus, plusminus Sign or Symbol

ALT + 179 ³ 3-d degree, third degree Sign or Symbol

ALT + 178 ² Second degree, 2-nd Sign or Symbol

ALT + 185 ¹ First degree Sign or Symbol

ALT + 186 º Zero degree Sign or Symbol

ALT + 169 © Copyright, copy, C Sign or Symbol

ALT + 174 ® Registered, register Sign or Symbol

ALT + 153 ™ Trade mark, trade, TM Sign or Symbol

ALT + 216 Ø Not in, O, zero Sign or Symbol

ALT + 221 � Latin Y Sign or Symbol

ALT + 127 Δ Delta, difference Sign or Symbol

ALT + 7 • Middot, middle point Sign or Symbol

ALT + 208 � Big D, Lick, Big tongue Sign or Symbol

ALT + 222 Þ Lick, tongue Sign or Symbol

ALT + 30 ▲ Triangle up Sign or Symbol

ALT + 31 ▼ Triangle down Sign or Symbol

ALT + 16 ► Triangle right Sign or Symbol

ALT + 17 ◄ Triangle left Sign or Symbol

ALT + 1 ☺ White smiley face, smile Sign or Symbol

ALT + 2 ☻ Black smiley face, smile Sign or Symbol

ALT + 13 ♪ Music note 1 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 14 ♫ Music note 2 Sign or Symbol

ALT + 4 ♦ Diams, Lozenge card Sign or Symbol

ALT + 5 ♣ Shamrock, Clubs card Sign or Symbol

ALT + 12 ♀ Woman, female, Venus Sign or Symbol

ALT + 176 ° Degree sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 133 … Three dots Sign or Symbol

ALT + 131 ƒ Function Sign or Symbol

ALT + 134 † Cross sign, dagger Sign or Symbol

ALT + 135 ‡ Double dagger Sign or Symbol

ALT + 137 ‰ Permil, permile, per mile Sign or Symbol

ALT + 140 ΠCE sign, fish Sign or Symbol

ALT + 156 œ Small ce Sign or Symbol

ALT + 191 ¿ Upside-down question Sign or Symbol

ALT + 151 — Dash Sign or Symbol

ALT + 198 Æ Aelig big, AE sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 230 æ Small aelig, ae sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 163 £ Pound sign, GBP Sign or Symbol

ALT + 128 € Euro sign, EUR Sign or Symbol

ALT + 165 ¥ Yen sign, JPY Sign or Symbol

ALT + 162 ¢ Cent sign Sign or Symbol

ALT + 215 × Middle X, x times, multiply Sign or Symbol

ALT + 21 § Section sign, paragraph Sign or Symbol

ALT + 15 ☼ Sun Sign or Symbol

ALT + 27 ← Left arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 26 → Right arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 29 ↔ Two sided left right arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 24 ↑ Up arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 25 ↓ Down arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 23 ↨ Up down double arrow Sign or Symbol

ALT + 3 ♥ Heart, valentine, card Sign or Symbol

ALT + 6 ♠ Spades card character Sign or Symbol

ALT + 11 ♂ Man, male, Mars Sign or Symbol

[Horace]

Although keymaps are all over the net, this one is much more useful since the description of the symbol is searchable which comes in very useful when you need to quickly send a symbol in chat.

[CHiLL]

I gather a lot of people already know the others, but there they are anyway.

Minimise all windows open at once - Windows Key + M

Minimise and restore all windows open at once - Windows Key + D

Open Computer Explorer - Windows Key + E

Utility Manager - Windows Key + U

Windows Search - Windows Key + S

Windows Run - Windows Key + R

Tools Menu - Windows Key + T

Switch between open windows - Left Alt + Tab

Shift down links and options on a page - Tab

Shift back up links and options - Shift + Tab

Copy - Left Control + C

Cut - Left Control + X

Paste - Left Control + V

Undo - Left Control + Z

Redo - Left Control + Y

New Window - Left Control + N

New Tab - Left Control + T

[tizmeinnit]

How to string a few together for simple copy and paste of text and links

to copy text or links( for Arthur or anyone who needs them)

press the left mouse button and hold it down at the end of the text you want to copy drag across text till all text you require is highlighted keep
holding the left mouse button. Release mouse button text should remain highlighted

Once highlighted press and hold the CTRL key and press C this copies the text

To paste the text simply click in the empty space where you write press and hold CTRL key and press V this pastes into place simple

bare in mind anything copied to clipboard will remain there until new text is copied or you log off reboot so you may make a mistake and paste it again

[idiosyncratic]

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

How to string a few together for simple copy and paste of text and links

to copy text or links( for Arthur or anyone who needs them)

press the left mouse button and hold it down at the end of the text you want to copy drag across text till all text you require is highlighted keep
holding the left mouse button. Release mouse button text should remain highlighted

Once highlighted press and hold the CTRL key and press C this copies the text

To paste the text simply click in the empty space where you write press and hold CTRL key and press V this pastes into place simple

bare in mind anything copied to clipboard will remain there until new text is copied or you log off reboot so you may make a mistake and paste it again

I find it even easier to position the cursor at the start (or end) of the text/link I want to copy, then hold down the shift key & use the left or right arrow key to highlight as much of the text is required, then let go shift & use ctrl-c, ctrl-v to copy & paste, as above.

[ThunderPants73]

Wow, really useful, thanks for posting!

[Dude111]

Very useful thread,merci beaucoup

[heero_yuy]

All the characters can be found at programs\accessories\systemTools\charactermap you can also select from any of the fonts you have loaded on the system Click on the character you want and it will tell you the key stroke or alt +number to use.

You can also copy them directly from there.

Couple of others:

PrtSc key will snapshot the screen to the clipboard, Alt with PrtSc will snapshot the current window to the clipboard.

Old hands will remember that this key used to print the current text or graphic screen in DOS but only to an IBM compatable printer.

[joglynne]

Really useful thread guys, thank you all.

Just as a point of interest could anyone tell me what I pushed in error that made my screen rotate to show the thread in portrait mode. I know I was messing with the numberlock on and using the ALT key/ number pad. Scared the pants off me and I just kept frantically pressing random combinations until I got it back to normal. Tried to do it again and can't work out how I did it. I really must stop doing things like this as it ages me considerably.

Oh Boy I have just tried to give a few reps and realised this was a resurrected 2009 thread.

[chris9991]

I was able to make the screen change on the machine I'm using by pushing CTRL and ALT and an arrow key (WinXP)

[joglynne]

Originally Posted by chris9991

I was able to make the screen change on the machine I'm using by pushing CTRL and ALT and an arrow key (WinXP)

Thanks for that Chris. That does work for me though I wasn't using those keys earlier. I like your way and will remember it as it is kind of logical.

[ThunderPants73]

Originally Posted by ThunderPants73

Wow, really useful, thanks for posting!

Unfortunately, half of them are incorrect.

[qasdfdsaq]

Lollerskates

Switch between open windows - Left Alt + Tab
Switch *backwards* between open windows - Alt+Shift+Tab

Switch tabs in web browser: Ctrl+Tab
Switch tabs backwards in web browser: Ctrl+Shift+Tab

Most of these things become pretty obvious when you notice the pattern.