Have you ever wondered how to type the trademark (™) symbol? What about other keyboard symbols or accented letters? Sure, you can purchase an international keyboard to use with your computer or mobile device, or you can use the features built into your operating system to type symbols using the keyboard you have. No special software is required.
4 Ways to Type Special Characters on a Mac
Windows has many alt-key shortcuts programmed in that you can use to type symbols and accented letters, regardless of the application you are using. There are two ways to do this; the first requires a keyboard with a full numeric keypad, while the second method uses the Windows character map.
The numeric keypad on a Windows computer allows you to use the ANSI code for special characters and symbols.
Press Alt + [the number code for the symbol or accent letter]. For example, Alt + 1 inserts ☺, while Alt + 0153 inserts the trademark ™.
