Keyboard Shortcuts for Office 365 Apps
Posted: May 05, 2020
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Sometimes during the course of writing a press release, blog, article, or presentation, writers will find themselves in need of a special character that isn't on the keyboard. Fortunately, there are more characters and symbols available if you're using Microsoft Word, or other Office 365 apps. Accessing the special characters can be done in a couple of different ways, and either can come in handy when you're looking for just the right one to use.
Mark Kaelin, contributing writer to TechRepublic, shares how to get access to the complete set of ASCII characters, by using special keyboard shortcut combinations found in the character map.
Under most circumstances, entering characters into any document created with
Microsoft Office 365 applications only involves the typing of the correct key on a standard keyboard. But sometimes the character we need for our document is not on the standard keyboard, and we have to resort to other, more exotic, entry methods.
The conventional ASCII set of characters included in
Microsoft Windows 10 contain much more than the common alphabet, numerical digits, and a small sampling of most-used symbols. However, to get access to the complete set of ASCII characters, users have to know and enter either special keyboard shortcut combinations, specific ALT commands, or use the built-in character map.
This article lists some of the more useful non-conventional ASCII characters and explains how to enter them into an
Office 365 document.
Read the entire article,
20 useful ALT commands and keyboard shortcuts for Office 365 apps, on
TechRepublic.