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The following shortcuts can be used Word & other Office programs as well as in many web page creation programs such as Komposer

• (r)  = ®
• (c) = ©
• 1/2  will automatically create ½
• 1/4  will automatically create ¼

Here is a miscellaneous list of other basic characters and symbols:Type the number while holding down the Alt key.

• Alt + 0153….. â„¢… trademark symbol
• Alt +  0169…. ©…. copyright symbol
• Alt + 0174….. ®… .registered trademark symbol
• Alt + 0176 …°……. .degree symbol
• Alt + 0177 …± … .plus-or-minus sign
• Alt + 0182 …¶……. paragraph mark
• Alt + 0190 …¾…… fraction, three-fourths
• Alt + 0215 …. ×….. multiplication sign
• Alt + 0162… ¢…… the cent sign
• Alt + 0161….. ¡…… upside down exclamation point
• Alt + 0191….. ¿….. upside down question mark
• Alt + 1………. ☺… smiley  fsce
• Alt + 2 ……… ☻… black smiley face
• Alt + 15…….. ☼… sun
• Alt + 12…….. ♀…. female sign
• Alt +  11……. ♂…. male sign
• Alt +  6……… â™ ….. spade sign
• Alt + 5………. ♣…. Club symbol
• Alt + 3………. ♥…. Heart
• Alt + 4………. ♦….. Diamond
• Alt + 13…….. ♪….. eighth note
• Alt + 14…….. ♫…. beamed eighth note
• Alt +  8721…. ∑…. N-ary summation (auto sum)
• Alt + 251…… √….. square root check mark
• Alt + 8236….. ∞…. infinity
• Alt + 24…….. ↑….. up arrow
• Alt + 25…….. ↓….. down arrow
• Alt + 26…….. →… right pointing arrow
• Alt + 27…….. ←… left arrow
• Alt + 18…….. ↕….. up/down arrow
• Alt + 29…….. ↔… left right arrow
• Alt + 0167 …§…… .section symbol
• Alt + 0163 …£…… .the British pound
• Alt + 0128 …€……. .the euro of the European Union
• Alt + 0165…¥……. the Japanese yen
• Alt + 0156… Å“…… lowercase Å“ diphthong (ligature)
• Alt + 0224 …à……. .lowercase a with grave accent
• Alt + 0225.. …á….. .lowercase a with acute accent
• Alt + 0226.. …â….. .lowercase a with circumflex
• Alt + 0227… ã……. lowercase a with tilde
• Alt + 0228… ä……. lowercase a with umlaut
• Alt + 0229… Ã¥……. lowercase ae diphthong (ligature)
• Alt + 0231… ç……. lowercase c with cedilla
• Alt + 0232 …è……. lowercase e with grave accent
• Alt + 0233.. …é….. .lowercase e with acute accent
• Alt + 0234 …ê……. .lowercase e with circumflex
• Alt + 0235 …ë……. .lowercase e with umlaut
• ]Alt + 0236 …ì…….. lowercase i with grave accent
• Alt + 0237 …í…….. lowercase i with acute accent
• Alt + 0238 …î…….. lowercase i with circumflex
• Alt + 0239….. ï…… lowercase i with umlaut
• Alt + 0241….. ñ … .lowercase n with tilde
• Alt + 0242….. ò…. lowercase o with grave accent
• Alt + 0243.. …ó….. .lowercase o with acute accent
• Alt + 0244 …ô……. .lowercase o with circumflex
• Alt + 0245.. …õ….. .lowercase o with tilde
• Alt + 0246 …ö……. .lowercase 0 with umlaut
• Alt + 0249 …ù. …… lowercase u with grave accent
• Alt + 0250 …ú … .lowercase u with acute accent
• Alt + 0252….ü…..lowercase u with circum flex
• Alt +  0253…ý…..lowercase u with umlaut

Keyboard Shortcuts

Having to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse slows down your work considerably. It can save a lot of time as you work if you the special key combinations. Most of these shortcuts work throughout Office and in a host of other programs so don’t be afraid to give them a try.

The ones I personally use the most are

<Ctrl c> – Copy     <Ctrl v> – Paste

because they will work even when you have no drop-down menu with these functions. Also try

<Ctrl a> – Select All
<Ctrl x> – Cut
<Ctrl z> – Undo
<Ctrl f> – Find
<Ctrl h> – Replace
<Ctrl Home> – Move to top
<Ctrl End> – Move to end
<Ctrl b> – Bold
<Ctrl i> – Italic
<Ctrl u> – Underline
<Ctrl n> – New
<Ctrl o> – Open
<Ctrl p> – Print
<Ctrl s> – Save

Here is sequence for you to try out some of these functions:

1. Start typing then press <Ctrl b> – this turns on [Bold]
2. Type a little more then press <Ctrl b> again to turn bold off
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 using <Ctrl i> for Italic and <Ctrl u> for Underline
4. Now press <Ctrl a> to Select All your text and then press <Ctrl c> to Copy it
5. Press <Ctrl End> to release the selection and move the typing position to the end
6. Press <Ctrl v> to Paste a second copy of your text

Sometimes, key combinations open dialog boxes. These can usually be closed by pressing <Esc>:

1. Press <Ctrl f> for Find, type in a letter (eg a) then press <Enter> for [Find Next]
2. Press <Enter> again to find another occurrence of the letter
3. Press <Esc> to [Cancel] the command (you may first need to press <Enter> for [OK] to cancel the message that Word has finished searching the document)
4. Press <Ctrl p> for Print then, having seen this work, press <Esc> for [Cancel]
5. Press <Ctrl s> for Save – again, press <Esc> for [Cancel]

Whenever you are writing a document (or using other Office programs), you should press <Ctrl s> every ten minutes or so to save what you have done so far if you haven’t turned the autosave function on.

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