{"id":139234,"date":"2023-03-30T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/?p=139234"},"modified":"2023-03-30T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T11:35:16","slug":"insert-symbols-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/insert-symbols-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to insert symbols on Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/tag\/windows-11\">Windows 11<\/a>, you have two easy ways to insert symbols when writing a document, email, text message, or social media post, and in this guide, you will learn how. If you ever wrote anything on your computer, you probably had to use the <strong>&#8220;ALT&#8221;<\/strong> key plus code or search online to insert a symbol (for example, em dash, more than and less than, arrows, and many others), which is very inconvenient for something so simple.<\/p>\n<p>However, Windows 11 comes with an emoji panel that lets you quickly insert symbols and kaomoji (face characters) in addition to emojis, so you don&#8217;t have to remember any &#8220;ALT&#8221; codes or use extra steps. Windows still comes with &#8220;Character Map,&#8221; a legacy application that includes all the symbols you will ever need to insert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/tag\/windows-10\/\">guide<\/a> will teach you the easy steps to insert symbols and kaomoji in documents, text files, emails, and social media posts on Windows 11 (or 10).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"toc\">\n<li><a href=\"#insert_symbols_emojipanel_windows10\">Insert symbols from emoji panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#insert_symbols_charactermap_windows10\">Insert symbols from Character Map<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"insert_symbols_emojipanel_windows10\">Insert symbols from emoji panel<\/h2>\n<p>To insert symbols or kaomoji on Windows 11, use these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Open an app on Windows 11.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Use the <strong>&#8220;Windows key + . (period)&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;Windows key + ; (semicolon)&#8221;<\/strong> keyboard shortcut to open the emoji panel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Click the <strong>Symbols<\/strong> tab. (Or the <strong>character face<\/strong>\u00a0button to access the available kaomoji.)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153843\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/symbols-tab-emojipanel-windows-11.webp?resize=827%2C532&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Symbols tab\" width=\"827\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/symbols-tab-emojipanel-windows-11.webp?w=865&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 865w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/symbols-tab-emojipanel-windows-11.webp?resize=300%2C193&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/symbols-tab-emojipanel-windows-11.webp?resize=150%2C96&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Select the symbols you want to insert.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153842\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/insert-symbol-windows-11.webp?resize=827%2C532&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Emoji Panel insert symbols\" width=\"827\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/insert-symbol-windows-11.webp?w=865&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 865w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/insert-symbol-windows-11.webp?resize=300%2C193&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/insert-symbol-windows-11.webp?resize=150%2C96&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"tip-box\"><span><strong>Quick tip:<\/strong> If you can&#8217;t find the symbol, you can switch between the tabs to look into the available symbols on Windows 11, including punctuation, currency, geometry, math, Latin, and language.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once you complete the steps, the symbol will appear in the document, and you use them, the most frequently used will appear in the &#8220;most recently used&#8221; tab to make it even easier to select them the next time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"=insert_symbols_charactermap_windows10&quot;\">Insert symbols from Character Map<\/h2>\n<p>To use the legacy Character Map app to insert symbols on Windows 11, use these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Open <strong>Start<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Search for <strong>Character Map<\/strong> and click the top result to open the app.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Select the symbol you want to use.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-139236\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/character-map-windows-11.webp?resize=476%2C413&#038;quality=78&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Character Map on Windows 11\" width=\"476\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/character-map-windows-11.webp?w=476&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 476w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/character-map-windows-11.webp?resize=300%2C260&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pureinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/character-map-windows-11.webp?resize=150%2C130&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Click the <strong>Copy<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After you complete the steps, you can insert the symbol by right-clicking and selecting the <strong>&#8220;Paste&#8221;<\/strong> option (or using the <strong>&#8220;Ctrl + V&#8221;<\/strong> keyboard shortcut).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the quickest ways to insert symbols on Windows 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2426,23],"tags":[95,19,2715,2576],"class_list":["post-139234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-windows","tag-difficulty-level-beginner","tag-how-to","tag-windows-11","tag-windows-help"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to insert symbols on Windows 11 - Pureinfotech<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To insert symbols on Windows 11 use the &quot;Windows key + .&quot; 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