Alt key codes give you access to hundreds of special ASCII characters, from accent marks to tiny icons. We show you how to use the Alt codes and also Word's Symbol library.

You can add special characters on a PC or Mac computer by using keyboard shortcuts or accessing a pop-up window. ... Click the character or symbol to insert it into your text.

Back in 1999, an Italian Prince fan named Marco Cimarosti figured out a way to blend several existing Unicode characters into something that resembled the Love Symbol. Here's how to achieve it on ...