You can use your computer's keyboard to quickly enter currency signs, foreign accents, trademarks and other symbols your business uses frequently. To access these symbols, you must use Windows' ...

Before the age of the internet, you likely never noticed some of the keyboard symbols that you now use all the time. Most of us still don’t know the actual history behind these now-ubiquitous symbols, ...

Whether you prefer to use a Mac or a Windows PC, you might think you know all your computer’s secrets. After all, you use it every day, and modern technology is supposed to be so intuitive that you ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. The keyboard is filled with unusual symbols like @, #, and &, which we use without stopping to think how these arbitrary symbols got such ...

Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of buttons you can press on your computer keyboard to complete certain actions, like opening and closing files, and copying and pasting text—things you would ...

You can type a degree symbol with your keyboard using key combinations on a computer or numerical keyboard menus on a phone or tablet. For instance, on a PC you can use the numpad code Alt + 0176; on ...

Windows 7 and Microsoft Word allow you to insert symbols above letters without using ribbon commands. For example, work with a Windows PC keyboard to apply keyboard combinations that insert accented ...

Podcasters and sound engineers often put together what’s called a “soundboard,” which is a collection of frequently used short audio clips that they can trigger with a click. Sometimes these are used ...

SwiftKey has a new keyboard app: Symbol. It’s not a conventional QWERTY typer, but a visual-based system, aimed at non-verbal autistic people, and others with special needs. And because it’s got ...