How to open the character table in windows 10. Windows: how to enter characters that are not on the keyboard? Inserting an ASCII or Unicode character into a document

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If you only need to enter a few special characters or symbols, you can use keyboard shortcuts. For a list of ASCII characters, see the following tables or the article Inserting National Alphabets Using Keyboard Shortcuts.

Notes:

To insert an ASCII character, press and hold the ALT key while entering the character code. For example, to insert a degree symbol (º), press and hold the ALT key, then enter 0176 on the numeric keypad.

To enter numbers, use the numeric keypad rather than the numbers on the main keyboard. If you need to enter numbers on the numeric keypad, make sure the NUM LOCK indicator is on.

To insert a Unicode character, enter the character code, then press ALT and X. For example, to insert a dollar symbol ($), enter 0024 and press ALT and X. For all Unicode character codes, see .

Important: Some Microsoft Office programs, such as PowerPoint and InfoPath, do not support converting Unicode codes to characters. If you need to insert a Unicode character in one of these programs, use .

Notes:

If the wrong Unicode character appears after you press ALT+X, select the correct code, and then press ALT+X again.

In addition, you must enter "U+" before the code. For example, if you enter "1U+B5" and press ALT+X, the text "1µ" will be displayed, and if you enter "1B5" and press ALT+X, the symbol "Ƶ" will be displayed.

A character table is a program built into Microsoft Windows that allows you to view the characters available for a selected font.

Using a symbol table, you can copy individual symbols or a group of symbols to the clipboard and paste them into any program that supports displaying those symbols. Opening the symbol table

In Windows 10, enter the word "symbol" in the search box on the taskbar and select the symbol table from the search results.

In Windows 8, type "symbol" on the Start screen and select the symbol table from the search results.

In Windows 7, click the Start button, select All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and then click Character Map.

Characters are grouped by font. Click the font list to select the appropriate character set. To select a symbol, click it, then click the Select button. To insert a symbol, right-click the desired location in the document and select Paste.

For a complete list of characters, see Computer, ASCII Character Code Table, or Unicode Character Tables Organized by Set.

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Windows 7 character table (Unicode Fonts, Unicode UTF-fonts), sort of emoji of the past, as I usually call them. At the moment, it’s a rarely used thing, and actually not much before. They are most familiar to us from the design of pages on social networks, in their nicknames, first names, last names, communities, messages; users often use them. There is a decent number of characters, so there is room for your imagination to run wild. In a professional environment, I noticed in the accounting department of one of my friends, they used them to display currencies, pounds £, euros €, etc., which are not on the keyboard. But this does not mean that you cannot enter a 16th code for display, for example, § - “paragraph” can be written by holding down ALT and entering 0167 on the additional keyboard.

It's very easy to do. Open the “Start” menu, and in the search enter the first 3 letters “tab”, this will be enough, you can also enter “CharMap”, which is actually the same thing.

Click on the result. The window we need will open immediately.

You can select the characters you like by dragging them with the mouse to the “For copying” item or doing them in the singular by clicking on the “Copy” button.

Windows 7 shows all the characters that are included in the font that the user selects. These can be punctuation marks, numbers, letters and symbols that are not on the keyboard. Any symbol or several symbols can be copied and pasted into those programs, editors, applications that are “friendly” with these symbols, that is, support their display.

Let's look in the recesses of the Windows 7 operating system for a mysterious stranger with the prosaic name “Symbol Table”. We use 2 options for this:

• through the automatic Search system and
• using the “All programs” option, manual search.

In fact, it is enough to use one option, choosing the most suitable one for yourself.

To do this, click on the big Start button. The button menu will open:

Rice. 1 Search Windows 7 Symbol Table

Here, in the bottom line with the inscription “Find programs and files,” click the mouse (number 1 in Fig. 1), the indicated inscription will disappear. Then we type “character table” on the keyboard without quotes, as shown below in Fig. 2, number 1.

Rice. 2 Enter the search query “symbol table” and immediately see the search result

The Windows 7 operating system itself will find and at the top of the Start menu will display the found “Symbol Table” program (number 2 in Fig. 2). All that remains is to use the search result, namely, click on the found program.

The second way to find the Windows 7 symbol table is to follow the following labyrinth of routes.

• Click on the Start button.

• The Start button menu will open, in which we click on the “All programs” option (number 2 in Fig. 1).

• Among the list of programs we find “Standard”. To do this, you may have to move the slider (number 3 in Fig. 3) to move through the programs.

• Among the “Standard” we find “Service”.

• Click on the “Service” option (number 1 in Fig. 3).

• Next, click on the “Symbol Table” option (number 2 in Fig. 3) to launch it.

Rice. 3 Found the Symbol Table along the way
“Start” – “All Programs” – “Accessories” – “Utility” programs Windows 7

In my opinion, the first method of searching the Symbol Table is faster. But the second method allows you to look into the “holy of holies” - Windows 7 Utilities, thereby seeing what tools Microsoft programmers provide us.

Figure 4 shows step by step how you can transfer a selected character, which most likely is not on the keyboard, from the Windows 7 Character Table to a program, application, or editor. The main thing is that the program, application or editor, that is, the place where we transfer the symbol, supports the display of such symbols. Because they may have mutual misunderstanding - software incompatibility.

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Often, when working with text, you need to insert a character that is not in the fonts installed on your computer. For example, a user decided to reproduce a pre-revolutionary text with yatami and izhitsa, but he doesn’t even have them (some try to get out of this situation by using the hard sign “Ъ”, but this is completely different!) (Pre-revolutionary and Church Slavonic symbols are offered in font Palatino Linotype. Church Slavonic fonts are offered at http://www.irmologion.ru/fonts.html or http://www.typikon.ru/fonts.htm Fonts of the peoples of Russia are offered at http://www. .peoples.org.ru/font.html). It is very simple to get out of this situation - you need to draw such a symbol and use it in the text. The only limitation for such symbols is that they are inserted only using the Symbol Table, located in the Standard section of the Windows Programs menu.

To create personal symbols, you need to open the personal symbol editor. It opens like this:

1. Open Start → All apps.

2. Place the mouse on the System Tools - Windows section.

3. Execute the Run command.

4. Type in the Open command list box Eudcedit. The case of the letters is completely unimportant. Click on the OK button.

Another way: Start → All apps → Accessories - Windows → Private Character Editor. After this, the Personal Sign Editor opens (Fig. 90).

After opening the Personal Symbol Editor, you will be prompted to define the code for this symbol. Select any cell and click on the OK button. In this editor we can create our own symbols. You don't have to create symbols from scratch; you can use any existing symbol as a base. To do this, execute the command Edit → Copy character. After this, the Copy character window opens. If the proposed font does not contain the required original character, then click the Font button and select another font. After the source symbol is found, select it and click on the OK button.

Drawing a personal symbol occurs without any particular difficulties, since its scale is very large and the surface of the sheet itself is lined with grid cells, which creates additional convenience for accurate drawing (Fig. 91). Each cell is a pixel.

The available tools are Pencil, Brush, various geometric shapes - Straight line, filled and unfilled Rectangles, filled and unfilled Ellipse. The Rectangular Selection and Free Shape Selection tools are used for selection. The Eraser tool is used to remove erroneously filled cells. The Pencil and the Brush differ from each other only in that the Pencil draws a line in 1 cell, and the Brush in 2. Coloring the symbol is only allowed in black. Once you insert this symbol into your document, you can change its color in any way you know. For example, in any version of Microsoft Word there is a special list of colors in which you can color characters.

After creating a symbol, you need to remember it. To do this, you need to execute the commands Edit → Save sign or Edit → Save sign as. The Save Symbol command saves the personal symbol under the same code. The Save sign as command allows you to save it under a different code. The editor has the ability to view the created personal symbol and compare it with some other symbol. To do this, run the command Window → Sample. After viewing, execute the command Window → Close Sample.

After creating a personal symbol, you need to associate it with some font or all fonts. The last option is preferable, as it is logically clearer and simpler. To do this, you need to execute the command File → Font Links. In the Font Links dialog box that opens, the Link to all fonts option is offered by default. Click on the OK button.

First of all, let's understand the term "Association with all fonts". This does not mean that this character will be accessible from any font. This symbol will be available from the Symbol Table in a font called All Fonts (Personal Symbols). Since all fonts in the font list have English names, according to the sorting rules, Russian characters are sorted after English ones. Therefore, this font will be the last or one of the last if fonts with Russian names suddenly appear.

After establishing a connection with the fonts, you must close all applications and restart the computer. On our computer, this font (All fonts (personal characters)) became available for the very first time only after rebooting the computer. Inserting a personal symbol is carried out only from the symbol table, which is opened by the command All programs → Standard → Symbol table. The procedure for selecting a symbol from this table and inserting it into the document is the same as for any regular symbol.

After creating a personal symbol, the user is obviously going to use that symbol in their documents. If he intends to use such documents only for internal use, that is, up to and including the printing stage, then in this case nothing additional needs to be done. But if the user is going to transfer files with personal symbols to other organizations or other people, then he must, along with the first transfer of such a document with a personal symbol, transfer to the customer the font itself with a personal symbol (or symbols). If this is not done, then these personal characters simply will not be reflected in the text when the customer tries to read your document on his computer.

To get help on the personal symbol editor, select the command in the same editor Help → Open help. Unfortunately, the certificate omits some minor nuances, about which for some reason nothing is said.

To create professional fonts, as well as their maintenance, specialized programs have been created. For a detailed description of such programs, see V. N. Shitov. The latest directory of useful computer programs. M.: House of Slavic Books, 2009.

A special character is a character that is not on the keyboard. The character table in Windows OS contains a list of all displayed characters FOR EACH of the installed fonts. Most often it is used to enter those characters that are not on the keyboard. From it you can get information about character codes in the Unicode table.
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Another way to type letters and symbols that are not on a standard keyboard is to use the symbol table that our computers have, and taking them from there is not difficult at all.

I'll tell you a little how and where to find THIS TABLE on your computer.

For the OS (operating system) Windows - XP, who still has it.

Path: Start -> All programs -> Accessories -> System tools -> Character table: Look at the picture

We get:

There are all the symbols here, even more than what is in the post. We are looking for the required symbol or letter,
1. select it with the mouse (Simply click on the one you need)
2. Click on the "Select" button. The symbol appears in the window.
3. All that remains is to copy the selection from the bottom line and paste it where required.

Where can I find the symbol table in Windows 7?

In the main menu of the Windows 7 operating system, you don’t have to look for this link yourself, but rely on the built-in search engine. Press the Win key

And immediately start entering the name of the desired OS component. You only have time to type “tab” when the search engine displays the “Symbol Table” link in the first line of results - click it with the mouse to launch the application.

Where can I find the symbol table in Windows 8.1?

1) In Windows 8.1, the symbol table is located in Programs-Accessories-Utilities-Symbol Table. You can call it in the same way as in Windows 7, that is, trust the built-in search engine. Press the Win key

2) You can use the Run command. To do this, press the combination Win (flag key) + R. In the window that opens, enter charmap.exe and Enter.

Personally, I have the Classic Shell program installed - the classic Start menu in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, and now “Eight” is practically no different from “Seven”. So search like this "Start" - All Programs - Windows Accessories - System Tools - Symbol Table.

Now these characters can be written by those who work on laptops and do not have a right-hand keyboard. For those who work on other operating systems, look where they are located in standard programs. Good luck to everyone in your work.