Ever notice when you using Word to write a document and you need a special letter or symbol, like a tilde ( ˜ ), word doesn't have it. That’s when an ASCII character comes in handy. I’ve listed some of the more commonly used ones below. To achieve these characters press & hold down Alt + the number listed, and the desired character will appear on your page.
’ = 0146 This reversed apostrophe is generally used to abbreviate a year as in ’80.
¢ = 0162
° = 0176 As in, it’s 93° today
ñ = 0241
é = 0233
¿ = 0191
æ = 0230
™ = 0153
£ = 0163 I hope these will be useful to someone.
