Place your screen cursor on the location where you want to insert the special character. Press and hold down the Alt key on the left side of the keyboard. On the numeric keypad, type the sequence of numbers (decimal code point value) that corresponds to the character you want to insert. Release the Alt key.

To use the shortcut, turn on NumLock / Fn and make sure your cursor is flashing where you want the symbol to go. Press and hold the alt key, and then press numbers. The symbol will appear when you release the alt key. You don’t need to press the + key. And that’s it!

Simply press and hold the ALT key and enter the numeric code on the keypad. When you let go of the ALT key, the symbol appears. Examples: ù = ALT+0249 -- ° = ALT+248 -- £ = ALT+156

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