How to print ALT characters in Win10?

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Mr Google has been no help. We use alt 0169, alt 0153, alt 0174 quite a lot. ©, ™, ®

How do you do that on using a keyboard without a number pad in Windows 10? In a user friendly manner. Number keys across the top of the keyboard are disabled when used with the ALT key.
Has MSFT just hijacked use of the keyboard ALT key for their own purposes?
Is there some "Top-Secret", different set of keystrokes?
 
I think you have to press the function (fn i think) key as well as alt on a laptop.

If these were symbols I used regularly I would change the function of a key that I never used to display those instead, I think that's in keyboard layout or something, just start typing keyboard in the search and it should appear
 
My recollection is that, from Day 1 the Alt+# only worked with the Number Pad. It's not really a Win10 issue, simply a Win issue. Either get a Number Pad or use Character Map (yes, a pain, but it DOES work...).
 
Yes... I believe ALT functionality on all versions of Windows required a right side number pad.

I use it all the time to create German characters for our Imported items: ä = alt 228

John
 
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I am pretty sure you can make your own keyboard shortcuts to these characters,

I will look when i get home from work.
 
I assume that a standalone numeric keypad would work*. Not sure but if you use special characters a lot and prefer a laptop it would be worth checking out. You can get a hardwired USB one for under 10 bucks.

*I have one on my desktop PC, but it came paired with a keyboard.
 
David Waldmann said:
I assume that a standalone numeric keypad would work*. Not sure but if you use special characters a lot and prefer a laptop it would be worth checking out. You can get a hardwired USB one for under 10 bucks.

*I have one on my desktop PC, but it came paired with a keyboard.
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Sort of defeats the purpose of the laptop to have to carry an external keypad along with a mouse.
Looks like the best option is that I have to edit the alt-codes of Kathleen's docs after she finishes or give her a notepad doc with the characters so that she can copy/paste.
 
Assuming Word has a user-modifiable autocorrect/text-replacement system (WordPerfect did decades ago), you could just enter:

##169 = [copyright symbol]
##153 = [trademark symbol]
##174 = [registered...]
etc

And whenever you enter that combo Word will automagically replace it with the desired symbol.

Or you could use whatever other relatively unique and not-likely-to-be-needed-for-something-else combo. It could even be:
#cr
#tm
#rt
etc.
As long as you don't think you'll even need to use the original text some time...
 
Rick Bergeron - CPF said:
Great idea. Will make the edit tomorrow.
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I did look into this and it was David's suggestion that I had in my head but I haven't used word for years,
There's also an open source script called Autohotkey that can assign symbols to keystrokes of your choice, might be worth a Google, the reviews I looked at seem good.
 
Darn.... It's the first 3 characters already built-in to Word's autocorrect.

(C) = ©
(tm) = ™
(r) = ®

Since MSFT made it's Office Suite (O-365) available at a very affordable price ($99/yr for 5 desktop/laptop installs), it was a no-brainer for us to keep things user-friendly.
 
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