![]() ![]() I use this hot key almost as often as I use Ctrl+c (copy) and Ctrl+v (paste). Entering 1d44e Alt+x enters □, which is math-italic a. It works by entering the Unicode hex code for the character followed by Alt+x. It ought to work in all editors! (Sadly, it doesn’t work in PowerPoint, Excel or Visual Studio, although it’d be easy for these programs to implement it ☹). My favorite general-purpose way is via Alt+x, which works in Word, Outlook, OneNote, and RichEdit-based programs like WordPad and the Windows 11 Notepad. The post Entering Unicode Characters explains several ways to enter arbitrary Unicode characters into applications. Other hot keys are global by nature and can be used in any locale. A number of the hot keys described in this post are English-centric and should be localized by the client. RichEdit is “globalized”, but not localized. This flexibility is valuable particularly for localizing hot keys. Since the client receives the keyboard input, it can do whatever it wants to with that input. Note that RichEdit clients, e.g., OneNote, often handle all hot keys with RichEdit never seeing the corresponding keyboard messages. ![]() A previous post published a summary of all RichEdit hot keys as of 2013, but that post got truncated, it’s missing some hot keys that were added recently, and the hyperlinks need updating. This post summarizes the hot keys built into RichEdit. But there are other hot keys that can be incredibly handy, and some navigation keys are still used a lot. With the great support for the mouse, touch, and graphical interface aids like ribbons incorporated into later personal computers, the need for navigation hot keys was greatly diminished. In the early microcomputer days, MS-DOS editors like pmate and teco depended on hot keys for navigation and other tasks. ![]()
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