Using the Character Viewer to type special characters when typing can slow you down. Thankfully, Apple allows you to use keyboard shortcuts to type some special characters on your Mac quickly, similar to typing certain punctuation marks by holding the Shift key and pressing a specific key. Howe...
You should now see Chinese language characters on the keyboard, allowing you to write Chinese in apps that utilize the default iPhone keyboard. Like the English keyboard, you may need to navigate through a couple of different Chinese character menus until you find the correct character. ...
Not so for Chinese computing. When inputting Chinese, the symbols a person sees on a QWERTY keyboard are always different from the symbols that ultimately appear on the monitor or on paper. Every single computer and new media user in the Sinophone world—no matter if they are blazing-fast o...
A simple click will add the emoji to your text. Pro tip: How to do emojis on a PC without a Windows key If you don’t have a Windows key or would prefer a different method, you can also use something called the “Touch Keyboard” to type emojis on your PC. This keyboard is ...
Microsoft Office provides several methods for typingBox Symbolor inserting symbols that do not have dedicated keys on the keyboard. In this section, I will make available for you five different methods you can use to type or insert this and any other symbol on your PC, like in MS Office (...
On Mac, you can switch your keyboard language. This means you can get your English language keyboard to type characters from another language. Essentially, the keyboard keys will type either the same letter or symbol as what’s written on your keyboard, or they will type a character from the...
If your laptop has a number pad, enable Numlock first. Then, hold down the Alt key and type 8377. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box. Type ‘charmap’ (without punctuation) and press Enter. A list of characters will appear, and the rupee symbol should be among ...
and special characters in different ways from the standard keyboard. To switch to the stock iOS setup, tap the globe icon in the lower-left corner of the keyboard to cycle to the next keyboard until you reach the default. You may have to tap and hold to open a menu with more options....
Before we begin, this is a handy overview of the hidden characters that you can type using Alt. The first example is the U.S. keyboard, the second is a U.K. keyboard. If you want to see an overview of a different keyboard on your screen we’ll include the steps to see it belo...
On their Windows systems, users have reported running into a confusing problem where the keyboard generates wrong characters as they type. People seem to experience this anomaly when they press both regular letters and the digits on the top row of the QWERTY keyboard, which is located beneath th...