Word and Office Symbols

You paste a special character and instead of the symbol you get a blank rectangle: □. Sometimes the box has tiny hex digits inside it, sometimes it’s a diamond with a question mark (�). The good news is that the character itself is almost never broken. The box is your device telling you it can’t … Read more

No numeric keypad means Alt codes won’t fire. Most laptops hide one anyway: hold Fn and use the number keys printed on M, J, K, L, U, I, O, or turn on Num Lock first. Faster, and it never fails: press Win + . (period) to open the Windows emoji and symbol panel, then search … Read more