{"id":11119,"date":"2018-02-28T03:29:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2018-02-28T03:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:32:31","slug":"open-character-map-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-character-map-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Ways to Open Character Map in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I access Character Map in order to type a special character that is not shown on my keyboard? Character Map is the built-in utility for helping you insert all possible text symbols or special characters into your document. In this tutorial we’ll show you different ways to open Character Map in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

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Method 1: Open Character Map in Windows 10 via Run Command<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press the Windows key + R on your keyboard to open Run command box, type charmap<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/p>\n

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The Character Map utility will start. When you first using Character Map, you may be amazed at what characters you could insert into a document.<\/p>\n

Method 2: Open Character Map in Windows 10 via Start Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click the Start<\/strong> button. When the Start Menu opens, scroll down to the Windows Accessories<\/strong> folder. Expand it and you’ll see the Character Map shortcut.<\/p>\n

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If you’re running Windows 7, you can access Character Map via Start<\/strong> > All Programs<\/strong> > Accessories<\/strong> > System Tools<\/strong> > Character Map<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Method 3: Open Character Map in Windows 10 via Cortana Search<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply type character<\/strong> into the Cortana Search box at the taskbar, then click the Character Map<\/strong> app appeared in the result list.<\/p>\n

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Method 4: Create a Character Map Shortcut on Your Desktop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open your Windows Explorer and browse to the C:\\Windows\\System32\\<\/em> folder. Right-click on the charmap.exe<\/strong> file and then select “Send to<\/strong>” -> “Desktop (create shortcut)<\/strong>” from the context menu.<\/p>\n

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Once the shortcut is created on your desktop, you can rename it to “Character Map<\/em>“. When you need to type special symbols, just double-click the Character Map shortcut to launch it quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can I access Character Map in order to type a special character that is not shown on my keyboard? Character Map is the built-in utility for helping you insert all possible text symbols or special characters into your document. In this tutorial we’ll show you different ways to open Character Map in Windows 10. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3704,3703,3701,3702],"class_list":["post-11119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-access-character-map-in-windows-10","tag-character-map-shortcut-windows-10","tag-how-to-open-character-map","tag-windows-character-map"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11129,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions\/11129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}