Infinity symbol on a Windows keyboard (Page 3): OK, fine for Windows users, but what about on a Mac. I have a Macbook Pro. I don't even have an "alt" key on my keyboard.

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

OK, fine for Windows users, but what about on a Mac. I have a Macbook Pro. I don't even have an "alt" key on my keyboard.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

cneajna wrote:

I saved this from Facebook... maybe it will help?

Yes, but as I have explained several times in this thread, Alt 236 may or may not produce the infinity symbol, in my case I get the ý symbol.

cneajna Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Searcher wrote:

Yes, but as I have explained several times in this thread, Alt 236 may or may not produce the infinity symbol, in my case I get the ý symbol.

Yeah, I know.. except that chart has Alt + 8236

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

cneajna wrote:

Yeah, I know.. except that chart has Alt + 8236

Alt 8236 gets absolutely nothing on my keyboard, the curser does not even advance.

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

Bob Yankle wrote:

I just tried it - Alt 236 IS the infinity symbol, but you have to have your Numlocks key turned on to get it, as well as keying in the numbers from the number pad. Is this what you're talking about? " ∞ "

acsii codes are done with number key pad and not the top row of numbers above q-] those have a different value.

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elivarz Loc: Latvia

One option too is goto > Start > All programms > Accessories > System Tools > Character map. Here is possible find all characters in every fontset, character codes. ANd at least copy this symbol, if with Alt + numpad isn't possible type this symbol. For me Alt 236 don't work..

OonlyBonly

∞ = alt 236 on Toshiba Laptop.

RAR_man Loc: stow, MA

in MS Outlook or Word, look on the ribbon for INSERT. You should see infinity symbol as an option. But you need to make sure you are using HTML text format. See pix.

Good luck!

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rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

Searcher wrote:

Does anyone know what the Alt code is for the infinity symbol (horizontal figure 8) on a Windows keyboard?

It is NOT "Alt 236" as many internet sites say it is.

I have tried Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3, also Arial fonts.

Would be most grateful if some one know the answer.

If you have one of the (more) common word processors (Open Office / M$Word, etc.) you can do an Insert --> Symbol and find it there. Usually appears under Mathematical Symbols or in the Greek alphabet extensions (it's the lower case Omega)...

gdoro1 Loc: Florida

Searcher wrote:

Does anyone know what the Alt code is for the infinity symbol (horizontal figure 8) on a Windows keyboard?

It is NOT "Alt 236" as many internet sites say it is.

I have tried Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3, also Arial fonts.

Would be most grateful if some one know the answer.

Searcher.. If you are trying to do this in MS Word... go to the insert menu, then symbol, and you will find infinity. Hope this helps.

Uncle Earl

Searcher wrote:

Does anyone know what the Alt code is for the infinity symbol (horizontal figure 8) on a Windows keyboard?

It is NOT "Alt 236" as many internet sites say it is.

I have tried Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3, also Arial fonts.

Would be most grateful if some one know the answer.

Just used alt 236 on laptop using windows 7, works ok

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Searcher wrote:

Does anyone know what the Alt code is for the infinity symbol (horizontal figure 8) on a Windows keyboard?

It is NOT "Alt 236" as many internet sites say it is.

I have tried Wingdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3, also Arial fonts.

Would be most grateful if some one know the answer.

Alt+8236

Earworms Loc: Sacramento, California

I seldom use Windows, so I wish I knew how to select all those characters too. It is so easy on a Mac because they have an easy to use character palette.

lorenww Loc: St. Petersburg

Work around, in Photoshop, use type tool and just enter 8 and then rotate it.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

If you go to this website it will give you a list of all the Windows Shortcut symbol codes using the ALT key.

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html