Short cuts, the geeky computer kind.

If you have a windows based computer, these keystroke short cuts should work for you. I am sure mac has some similar, but I just don't know about them. 

So, you want to use a little irregular punctuation or you are writing a recipe and you don't want to keep trying to find the goshed dang character map (which is where all the keystrokes are located.)

I am only going to list a few of the ones I use, but there are bunches that have key stroke shortcuts.

All the most common true type fonts have these punctuation marks, the fancy ones, rarely. Just saying.

Okay, time to practice:

Hold down your alt key.......

type 3....... then let go....♥

Hold down you alt key, type number, let go...that's the order.

Okay, a few of my faves:

0174....®

0176 .....° (degree symbol: 350°)

0188...¼

0189...½

0190...¾

0252...ü

0241...ñ

0233...é

0131...ƒ

0191...¿

0183...· (like a dot instead of a dash: 555·5555)

3...♥

1...☺

2...☻

7...• (555•5555)

13...♪

14..♫

Go and peruse the character map, they don't all have key stroke short cuts, but quite a few do!!

I have mine written on an index card, but I know several of them by heart or should I say: by ♥? 

A few helpful linkies:

common short cuts for windows xp 

http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/key/ 

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21187/insert-any-special-character-with-a-single-keystroke/ 

for mac:

http://www.compukiss.com/basics/symbols-character-map-2.html