255 Keyboard Alt Codes

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☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ ? ◘ ○ ♂ ♀ ♪...

☺ ◄ - That?s not an image, it?s actually one of the alt codes on your keyboard. Some of you probably know a few by heart like the ? or the Ω. If you?ve ever wanted to know what the other alt codes are, here?s a list of alt codes from 1 - 255.

To use them just hold down the alt key and press the specified combination of numbers on your numpad. Ready to see the list? Here we go.

1 - alt + 1 = ☺

2 - alt + 2 = ☻

3 - alt + 3 = ♥

4 - alt + 4 = ♦

5 - alt + 5 = ♣

Keyboard Alt Codes

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Good one Humpty☺

I ♥ learning here on Piriform Forums :D

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Could have done with that last week when I spent an age trying the find the "degree" symbol for CeeCee's pc temperature thread.

Eventually came up with this after googling:

Start > All programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character map

i25_CharacterMap.jpg

They're not the same as your link Humpty, as I can't see any faces.

Don't know how many there are either, and I aint counting them. :D

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I believe it has to do with Code Pages ☺

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These are fun. I learned about these a few months ago in Halo PC, when people had them in their name.

When you're in Word, and using that font with the pictures(I can't believe I forgot the name), alt codes also show more pictures with the font. In Xfire, if you typed a long number, like 5512256, it showed Asian symbols. It's fun typing random numbers and seeing what you can find haha. :lol:

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Could have done with that last week when I spent an age trying the find the "degree" symbol for CeeCee's pc temperature thread.

Eventually came up with this after googling:

I would've just wrote degree. :lol: I didn't know about all those alt keys.

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I would've just wrote degree. :lol: I didn't know about all those alt keys.

I thought of doing that, but the guys in that thread had ? symbols, and I wanted one as well.

What can I say? :(

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I thought of doing that, but the guys in that thread had ? symbols, and I wanted one as well.

What can I say? :(

Symbols envy? :P:lol:

Actually I tried using some of those ALT+ keys and none of them work with my Microsoft Wireless Natural MultiMedia Keyboard. However using the Character Map, which I've by the way never ever launched before does the trick! ;)