How to Type Hearts, Musical Notes and Other Symbols on Facebook, IM and Chat

Create cool hearts, smiley faces, musical notes and other symbols!

So many people wonder how their friends make those cute little hearts, smiles and symbols on their MySpace and Facebook posts, but feel too silly to ask how it's done. Follow these simple steps and you, too, will be creating hearts, musical notes, smiley faces and designs with other symbols to decorate your posts and chat messages, even emails. It's very easy to learn, and lots of fun to do.

Things You'll Need

• Desktop computer
• (Laptop Users refer to Step 3)

Instructions

1. 

   There are two methods to achieve decorations and symbols. The first requires a desktop computer, with the side number keypad. Your cursor must be positioned inside a text typing box, such as an email or word document, a chat box, or Facebook/MySpace message posting box.

2. 

   Simply turn on the 'number lock' on your computer keyboard, press and hold the ALT key while you type the following numbers. The corresponding symbol will appear. Feel free to print this page to keep as a handy reference.
   Alt +1 ☺ Happy Smiley
   Alt +2 ☻ Sad Smiley
   Alt +3 ♥ Heart
   Alt +4 ♦ Diamond
   Alt +5 ♣ Club
   Alt +6 ♠ Spade
   Alt +7 • Bullet 1
   Alt +8 ◘ Bullet 2
   Alt +9 ○ Bullet 3
   Alt +10 ◙ Bullet 4
   Alt +11 ♂ Male Sign
   Alt +12 ♀ Female Sign
   Alt +13 ♪ Quaver
   Alt +14 ♫ Joined Quavers
   Alt +15 ☼ Funky sun/star
   Alt +16 ► Play Forward
   Alt +17 ◄ Play Reverse
   Alt +18 ↕ Arrows up & down
   Alt +23 ↨
   Alt +24 ↑ Up Arrow
   Alt +25 ↓ Down Arrow
   Alt +26 → Right Arrow
   Alt +27 ← Left Arrow
   Alt +29 ↔
   Alt +30 ▲
   Alt +31 ▼
   Alt +36 $ Dollar Sign
   Alt +127 ⌂
   Alt +155 ¢ Cent
   Alt +169 ® Registered symbol
   Alt +248 ° Degree sign
   Alt +254 ■ Stop

   Be sure to type the zero first for the following symbols:
   Alt +0153 ™ Trademark
   Alt +0169 © Copyright
   Alt +0188 ¼ Quarter
   Alt +0189 ½ Half
   Alt +0190 ¾ Three quarters

3. If you are using a laptop or notebook computer, you will not be able to use the method above, as these keyboards do not have separate number keypads. Using CTRL + C, copy the entire display of symbols shown below and paste them (CTRL + P) into an email sent to yourself, or a word document. Keep the document open while you are chatting or messaging, and copy and paste the symbols individually, as you need to use them.

   ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠
   • ◘ ◙ ♂ ♀
   ► ◄ ■ ▲ ▼
   ↨ ↑ ↓ → ←
   ☼ ⌂ ↕ $ ¢ °
   ¼ ½ ¾ © ® ™