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A key labelled with some variation of "Alt Graphic" was on many computer keyboards before the Windows international layouts. On early home computers the alternate graphemes were primarily box-drawing characters. [5] This likely was the intended purpose of the Alt key on PC keyboards, however software quickly used this as a combination key for ...
Shut down computer Windows 10: ⊞ Win+x > u > u: Ctrl+⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+Eject (no confirmation, shutdown is immediate) Ctrl+Alt+⇧ Shift+PageDown (KDE; no confirmation, shutdown is immediate) (GNOME; there is no default shortcut) [6] Power (Hold for 10 seconds) Restart computer Windows 10: ⊞ Win+x > u > r Windows 7: ⊞ Win+→+→+↑+↵ Enter
This did not work for characters not in the Windows Code Page (such as box-drawing characters). The new Alt+0### combination (which prefixes a zero to each Alt code), produces characters from the newer "Windows code pages." [a] For example, Alt+ 0 1 6 3 yields the character £ (symbol for the pound sterling) which is at 163 in CP1252. [2] [b]
Most common keyboard shortcuts. If you memorize these top 10 key combinations, you should be able to use them on almost any computer program, from email and Internet browsers to the software that ...
The Alt key on an Apple keyboard. Since the 1990s, Alt has been printed on the Option key on most Mac keyboards. As of 2017, the newest Apple keyboards do not contain the Alt label. Alt is used in non-Mac software, such as non-macOS Unix and Windows programs, but in macOS it is always referred to as the Option key.
Under Windows, the Alt key is pressed and held down while a decimal character code is entered on the numeric keypad; the Alt key is then released and the character appears. The numerical code corresponds to the character’s code point in the Windows 1252 code page, with a leading zero; for example, an en dash (–) is entered using Alt+0150 ...
Windows hold Alt+access key hold Alt+⇧ Shift+access key hold Alt+Control+⇧ Shift+access key [1] Chrome OS Linux hold Alt+⇧ Shift+access key hold Alt+access key: macOS hold Control+⌥ Option+access key: Firefox: Windows, Linux hold Alt+⇧ Shift+access key [2] macOS hold Control+⌥ Option+access key: Internet Explorer MS Edge Legacy: Windows
A combination of Alt+F4 in Microsoft Windows will trigger the shortcut for closing the active window; in this instance, Alt is the modifier key. In contrast, pressing just ⇧ Shift or Alt will probably do nothing unless assigned a specific function in a particular program (for example, activating input aids or the toolbar of the active window ...