How to Write In Codes If Your Keyboard's Some Key's Doesnt Work

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This article will help out those people who are going to buy a new keyboard because their old keyboard's some keys are not working, please do read this article this will surely help you in saving your money as you can still work on your old keyboard's with doing all your work.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

  • Just a keyboard.

Step1
Let's see how we can do this. For this article, I'm going to say that the “A” key on your keyboard has stopped working and you are in the middle of typing a document. You need to get your work done quickly, so what are you supposed to do when you need to type the letter A? Here's what:
Step2
Codes 1 1.) Make sure the NumLock function is enabled on your keyboard.

2.) Press and hold the ALT key.


3.) While holding down the ALT key, enter the two or three digit decimal code (which is 65 in our example) for the extended ASCII character you want to generate.

4) Release the ALT key.

Once you do all that, you will find the letter A on your document. If you want a small “a” instead, then type the code of 97.

The trick to this, of course, is to know the decimal equivalent of the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Tnterchange) characters that you want to generate.

The following tables show the decimal equivalents of the ASCII characters.
Step3
Codes 2..contd The tip here will help you to understand it better.

Tips & Warnings

  • As you can see, this tip doesn't only work for the alphabet keys. You can also use the codes for the symbols on your keyboard. So, are you still thinking about replacing that keyboard? I thought you might change your mind! When in doubt, just use these alternatives!

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