Con: your unique character can only be one color ( font color) and is low-resolution. Pro: you can insert your unique character into any text line and change its size and color. There are some pros and cons to creating your characters. The Private Character Editor inside of Window 10 PCE contains essential tools ( pencil, brush, line, rectangle, and circle) for creating and editing characters and more advanced options. Using Private Character Editor ( PCE), you can create up to 6,400 unique characters ( such as special letters and logos) for use in your font library.
How to insert a special character into a document In the Run dialog box that appears, type charmap and select OK. Right-click on the Windows logo on the Start Menu or press the Windows logo key + X and then select Run On the keyboard, press the Windows logo key + R
Using the Run dialog box to start Character Map
And the cool thing is you can add them to almost any Windows program ( HTML editors excluded).Ĭharacter Map inside of Windows 3.11 How to start up Character Map I remember first using Character Map inside of Windows 3.1 and was amazed at what font characters I could insert into a Microsoft Word document. So how do you access and insert these characters? By using Character Map.Ĭharacter Map is one of those hidden gems inside of Windows that once you find it, you wonder how you lived without it.
And that doesn't even include the unique fonts characters you can create with Private Character Editor. Most Windows fonts do have more characters than your keyboard can create.
Have you ever wanted to insert a letter or symbol into a Windows document that you could not find on your keyboard? Maybe a copyright, trademark, or tolerance symbol? You can do just that and more with Windows built-in Character Map.īelieve it or not, but Windows fonts can have more characters than your keyboard has keys.