How to Use Extended Keyboard in Windows
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Frequently you like to use extended characters from a panoply of symbols available as fonts on the Microsoft Windows.
A couple of steps you are away from utilising it.
Steps
- Open the application that you want to utilise extended characters on it.
- Click on the "start" also known as the Orb at the left bottom of your screen.
- Click on "All Programs"
- Select "Accessories" from the "All Programs."
- Select "System Tools" from the "Accessories."
- Select "Character Map" from the "System Tools." Character map table will be opened.
- Use short cut. After learning where the "Character Map" could be found you can use the Command Execution Field to run it as a Windows command. Just type "charmap" in it.
- Look at the "Character Map." From the drop-down menu at the top, select your desired font that includes the necessary characters.
- Assume you need Hebrew Alef, symbol of infinite cardinal in mathematics. Select "Aharoni" font that includes it.
- Find the character among the entries of the table. Click on it.
- Click on "Select" button. It pops up the selected character to the foreground and into the text-field. At the bottom it gives further information such as name of the character and its unicode value (here, 05D0).
- Click on the "Copy" button to copy it to the clipboard. Then you can paste the character on any place, such as on an editor.
- Note that you can make more character to be copied, in one go.
- Create keyboard shortcut. For frequent usage of the map you need a keyboard shotcut to access the map immediately.
- Find the character map again. Right click on its name, to open a Windows menu.
- Click on the Properties to open it. Shortcut text field shows "none."
- Click in the shortcut key text field. Type Ctr+Alt+ some desired key from the keyboard. In the picture Ctrl+Alt+Q is selected. But it depends to your selection.
- If the combination has already a usage Windows prevent you to use it.
- You always have to use Ctr+Alt. No other combination is accepted.
- Click on "Apply" button and then click on "OK" button. Now when you need the "Character Map", just press "Ctr+Alt+Q" and the table pops out in front of you.