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Cool nevertheless - I got to practice my fine motor skills. Really oldschool. I remember first seeing this when I was still supporting a dedicated word processor.

There has sometimes been a slight amount of proprietary change to the keyboard-to-OS interaction over the years. For example, I'm now using an old Compaq keyboard on a new Windows 7 machine and I can't do ctrl-alt-prtsc with it.

On another site I frequent, one poster has a birthday cake and candles made out of symbols. Now I know how she does it!

Thanks for sharing.

That's strange. When I press ALT and 0153, I get:

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Thank you! I always wanted to do a smiley face on here âº.

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O i'm so silly. I thought you had to press them all at once!

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That's great. I haven't seen a chart like that for years since I switched to Mac.

Now I just played around with Alt+ sequential keys in rows, but if someone knows if Apple has the hearts, smileys and other sillies, please share.

This is what the Alt+ provides:

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éâÂÂçâÂÂâ«ÃÂõâ¤âÂ¥÷ 4th row

I looked up the Apple ASCII chart, but it won't let me copy it here though one can download from Apple.com. Alas, Mac seems not to include hearts.

I'm so used to using Character Map for all these and keep a shortcut in my task bar to access. I think it would take me longer to open this saved pic and get the right shortcut typed in! But it's all about habit and memorization, too - I'm just used to my way. If you don't know about Character Map (and are on a PC not a mac) .......

Start
All Programs
Accessories, System Tools
Character Map

Put a shortcut in your task bar and it's accessible even when you have windows open.

I just find a page anywhere on the web with the character(s) I want and do a copy and paste.

Character Map is new to me, so thanks for mentioning that.

This post was edited by graywings on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 16:47

graywings look on Character map in Arial font and scroll down about 2/3 of the way. I never use the smileys because they're so small but I use the hearts and music notes on facebook for birthdays.

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This post was edited by dlm2000 on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 16:58

Abundantblessings, you can easily make hearts on a mac. You can even do colorful dimensional emoji ones for sites that support emoji. There are hundreds and hundreds of characters you can insert via character viewer, but of course it depends on site encoding and the browser someone is using to view the page as to whether or not they come through.

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Here is a link that might be useful: using character viewer

writersblock, I just saw your message. Thanks so much. I'll check out character viewer. âÂÂ¥ For now I just cheated and copied yours.

Grey and DLM, thanks so much for this great info.