Box character in word

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In today’s article, you’ll learn how to use some keyboard shortcuts plus other methods to type the Box Symbol (text – ☐) in MS Word/Excel using either Windows or Mac.

Just before we begin, I’ll like to tell you that you can also use the button below to copy and paste the Box sign into your work for free.

However, if you just want to type this symbol on your keyboard, the actionable steps below will show you everything you need to know.

Quick Guide for Typing Box Symbol [☐]

To type the Box Symbol on Mac, press Option + 2610 shortcut on your keyboard. For Windows users, simply press down one of the Alt keys and type 9744 using the numeric keypad, then let go of the Alt key.

Note: These shortcuts can work only on MS Word.

The below table contains all the information you need to type this Symbol on the keyboard for both the Mac and the Windows PC.

Symbol Name Box Symbol
Symbol Text ☐
Alt Code 9744
Windows Shortcut Alt+9744
Mac Shortcut Option + 2610
Word Shortcut 2610, Alt+X
Box symbol shortcuts on keyboard

The quick guide above provides some useful shortcuts and alt codes on how to type the Box symbol in Word or Excel on both Windows and Mac.

For more details, below are some other methods you can also use to insert this symbol into your work such as Word or Excel document.

How to type Box Symbol [text] in Word/Excel

Microsoft Office provides several methods for typing Box Symbol or inserting symbols that do not have dedicated keys on the keyboard.

In this section, I will make available for you five different methods you can use to type or insert this and any other symbol on your PC, like in MS Office (ie. Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) for both Mac and Windows users.

Without any further ado, let’s get started.

Using the Box Symbol Alt Code (Windows Only)

The Box Symbol alt code is 9744.

Even though this Symbol has no dedicated key on the keyboard, you can still type it on the keyboard with the Alt code method. To do this, press and hold the Alt key whilst pressing the Box Alt code (i.e. 9744) using the numeric keypad.

This method works on Windows only. And your keyboard must also have a numeric keypad.

Below is a break-down of the steps you can take to type the Box Sign on your Windows PC:

  • Place your insertion pointer where you need the Box Symbol text.
  • Press and hold one of the Alt keys on your keyboard.
  • Whilst holding on to the Alt key, press the Box Symbol’s alt code (9744). You must use the numeric keypad to type the alt code. If you are using a laptop without the numeric keypad, this method may not work for you. On some laptops, there’s a hidden numeric keypad which you can enable by pressing Fn+NmLk on the keyboard.
  • Release the Alt key after typing the Alt code to insert the Symbol into your document.
small box symbol alt code

This is how you may type this symbol in Word using the Alt Code method.

Using the Box Symbol Shortcut

For Mac users, the keyboard shortcut for the Box Symbol is Option + 2610. For Windows users, use the Alt Code Shortcut method by pressing down one of the [Alt] keys whilst typing the symbol’s alt code which is 9744.

You must use the numeric keypad to type the alt code. Also, ensure that your Num Lock key is turned on.

Box symbol shortcuts on keyboard

Below is a breakdown of the Box Symbol shortcut for Mac:

  • First of all, place the insertion pointer where you need to type the symbol (☐).
  • Now, press Option + 2610 simultaneously on your keyboard to insert the symbol.

Below is a breakdown of the Box Symbol shortcut for Windows (In MS Word):

  • Place the insertion pointer at the desired location.
  • Press and hold down the Alt key
  • While pressing down the Alt key, type 9744 using the numeric keypad to insert the symbol.

Below is a breakdown of the Box Symbol shortcut for Windows (In MS Word Only):

  • Click to place the insertion pointer where you want the Box Symbol to be inserted.
  • Type this code – 2610.
  • After typing the code and whilst the insertion pointer is still next to the last digit in the code, press Alt + X to convert the code to the symbol.

These are the shortcuts you may use to type the box sign in Word or Excel.

Copy and Paste Box Sign ☐ (text)

Another easy way to get the Box sign on any PC is to use my favorite method: copy and paste.

All you have to do is to copy the symbol sign from somewhere like a web page, or the character map for windows users, and head over to where you need the symbol (say in Word or Excel), then hit Ctrl+V to paste.

Below is the symbol for you to copy and paste into your Word document. Just select it and press Ctrl+C to copy, switch over to Microsoft Word, place your insertion pointer at the desired location, and press Ctrl+V to paste.

☐

Alternatively, just use the copy button at the beginning of this post.

For windows users, obey the following instructions to copy and paste the Box Symbol using the character map dialog box.

  • Click on the Start button and search for Character Map. The Character Map app will appear in the search results, click to open.
search for character map on windows
  • The Character Map dialog will appear. Click to check the Advanced view check-box to expand the dialog box for more advanced options.
Check the Advanced view checkbox to expand the dialog
  • On the advanced view, type Ballot Box in the Search box.
  • You should now see the Box (☐) Symbol on the character map dialog. If you can’t see it, then you should look through the library of symbols to spot it. When found, double click it to select. Alternatively, click on the Select button.
copy and paste the empty checkbox
  • After you select the symbol by double-clicking it, it should appear in the Character to copy: field, then click on the Copy button to copy the symbol.
  • Switch to your Microsoft Word or Excel document, place the insertion pointer at the desired location, and press Ctrl+V to paste.

This is how you may use the Character Map dialog to copy and paste any symbol on Windows PC.

Using insert Symbol dialog box (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

The insert symbol dialog box is a library of symbols from where you can insert any symbol into your Word document with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Obey the following steps to insert this symbol (☐) in Word or Excel using the insert symbol dialog box.

  • Open your Word document.
  • Click to place the insertion pointer where you wish to insert the symbol.
  • Go to the Insert tab.
Click on the Insert tab
  • In the Symbols category, click on the Symbol drop-down and select the More Symbols button.
Go to Symbols>More Symbols

The Symbol dialog box will appear.

  • To easily locate the Box symbol, select Segoe UI Symbol font type in the Font list at the upper left section of the window. Then type 2610 in the character code field at the bottom area of the window. After typing this character code, the Box symbol will appear selected.
  • Now click on the Insert button to insert the symbol into your document.
inserting empty checkbox in Word/Excel
  • Close the dialog.

The symbol will then be inserted exactly where you placed the insertion pointer.

These are the steps you may use to insert this Symbol in Word.

Conclusion

As you can see, there are several different methods you can use to type the Box Sign in Microsoft Word.

Using the shortcuts for both Windows and Mac make the fastest option for this task. Shortcuts are always fast.

Thank you very much for reading this blog.

If you have anything thing to say or questions to ask concerning the Box Symbol, please drop it in the comments.

Источник

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The character U+2500 ─ BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL redirects here. It is not to be confused with the em dash ⟨—⟩

Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterised by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment. Box-drawing characters therefore typically only work well with monospaced fonts. In graphical user interfaces, these characters are much less useful as it is more simple and appropriate to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs. However, they are still useful for command-line interfaces and plaintext comments within source code.

Other types of box-drawing characters are block elements, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters, these can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows.

Encodings[edit]

Unicode[edit]

Box Drawing[edit]

Unicode includes 128 such characters in the Box Drawing block.[1] In many Unicode fonts only the subset that is also available in the IBM PC character set (see below) will exist, due to it being defined as part of the WGL4 character set.

Box Drawing[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+250x ─ ━ │ ┃ ┄ ┅ ┆ ┇ ┈ ┉ ┊ ┋ ┌ ┍ ┎ ┏
U+251x ┐ ┑ ┒ ┓ └ ┕ ┖ ┗ ┘ ┙ ┚ ┛ ├ ┝ ┞ ┟
U+252x ┠ ┡ ┢ ┣ ┤ ┥ ┦ ┧ ┨ ┩ ┪ ┫ ┬ ┭ ┮ ┯
U+253x ┰ ┱ ┲ ┳ ┴ ┵ ┶ ┷ ┸ ┹ ┺ ┻ ┼ ┽ ┾ ┿
U+254x ╀ ╁ ╂ ╃ ╄ ╅ ╆ ╇ ╈ ╉ ╊ ╋ ╌ ╍ ╎ ╏
U+255x ═ ║ ╒ ╓ ╔ ╕ ╖ ╗ ╘ ╙ ╚ ╛ ╜ ╝ ╞ ╟
U+256x ╠ ╡ ╢ ╣ ╤ ╥ ╦ ╧ ╨ ╩ ╪ ╫ ╬ ╭ ╮ ╯
U+257x ╰ ╱ ╲ ╳ ╴ ╵ ╶ ╷ ╸ ╹ ╺ ╻ ╼ ╽ ╾ ╿
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0

The image below is provided as a quick reference for these symbols on systems that are unable to display them directly:

Unicode Box Drawings (2500 - 27FF).svg

Block Elements[edit]

The Block Elements Unicode block includes shading characters. 32 characters are included in the block.

Block Elements[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+258x ▀ ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ ▉ ▊ ▋ ▌ ▍ ▎ ▏
U+259x ▐ ░ ▒ ▓ ▔ ▕ ▖ ▗ ▘ ▙ ▚ ▛ ▜ ▝ ▞ ▟
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0

Symbols for Legacy Computing[edit]

In version 13.0, Unicode was extended with another block containing many graphics characters, Symbols for Legacy Computing, which includes a few box-drawing characters and other symbols used by obsolete operating systems (mostly from the 1980s). Few fonts support these characters, but the table of symbols is provided here:

Symbols for Legacy Computing[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1FB0x 🬀 🬁 🬂 🬃 🬄 🬅 🬆 🬇 🬈 🬉 🬊 🬋 🬌 🬍 🬎 🬏
U+1FB1x 🬐 🬑 🬒 🬓 🬔 🬕 🬖 🬗 🬘 🬙 🬚 🬛 🬜 🬝 🬞 🬟
U+1FB2x 🬠 🬡 🬢 🬣 🬤 🬥 🬦 🬧 🬨 🬩 🬪 🬫 🬬 🬭 🬮 🬯
U+1FB3x 🬰 🬱 🬲 🬳 🬴 🬵 🬶 🬷 🬸 🬹 🬺 🬻 🬼 🬽 🬾 🬿
U+1FB4x 🭀 🭁 🭂 🭃 🭄 🭅 🭆 🭇 🭈 🭉 🭊 🭋 🭌 🭍 🭎 🭏
U+1FB5x 🭐 🭑 🭒 🭓 🭔 🭕 🭖 🭗 🭘 🭙 🭚 🭛 🭜 🭝 🭞 🭟
U+1FB6x 🭠 🭡 🭢 🭣 🭤 🭥 🭦 🭧 🭨 🭩 🭪 🭫 🭬 🭭 🭮 🭯
U+1FB7x 🭰 🭱 🭲 🭳 🭴 🭵 🭶 🭷 🭸 🭹 🭺 🭻 🭼 🭽 🭾 🭿
U+1FB8x 🮀 🮁 🮂 🮃 🮄 🮅 🮆 🮇 🮈 🮉 🮊 🮋 🮌 🮍 🮎 🮏
U+1FB9x 🮐 🮑 🮒 🮔 🮕 🮖 🮗 🮘 🮙 🮚 🮛 🮜 🮝 🮞 🮟
U+1FBAx 🮠 🮡 🮢 🮣 🮤 🮥 🮦 🮧 🮨 🮩 🮪 🮫 🮬 🮭 🮮 🮯
U+1FBBx 🮰 🮱 🮲 🮳 🮴 🮵 🮶 🮷 🮸 🮹 🮺 🮻 🮼 🮽 🮾 🮿
U+1FBCx 🯀 🯁 🯂 🯃 🯄 🯅 🯆 🯇 🯈 🯉 🯊
U+1FBDx  
U+1FBEx  
U+1FBFx 🯰 🯱 🯲 🯳 🯴 🯵 🯶 🯷 🯸 🯹
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

The image below is provided as a quick reference for these symbols on systems that are unable to display them directly:

Symbols for Legacy Computing Unicode block.png

DOS[edit]

The hardware code page of the original IBM PC supplied the following box-drawing characters, in what DOS now calls code page 437. This subset of the Unicode box-drawing characters is thus included in WGL4 and is far more popular and likely to be rendered correctly:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
B ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╡ ╢ ╖ ╕ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╛ ┐
C └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╞ ╟ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧
D ╨ ╤ ╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀

The integral halves are also box drawing as they are used alongside 0xB3:

4 5
F ⌠ ⌡

Their number is further limited to 28 on those code pages that replace the 18 characters that combine single and double lines, the left and right half blocks, as well as integral halves with other, usually alphabetic, characters (such as code page 850):

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
B ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ┐
C └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬
D ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▀

Note: The non-double characters are the thin (light) characters (U+2500, U+2502), not the bold (heavy) characters (U+2501, U+2503).

Some OEM DOS computers supported other character sets, for example the Hewlett-Packard HP 110 / HP Portable and HP 110 Plus / HP Portable Plus, where in a modified version of the character set box-drawing characters were added in reserved areas of their normal HP Roman-8 character set.[2][3]

[2][3] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8 ╝ ╗ ╔ ╚ ╣ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ║ ╬
9 ▀ ▄ ┘ ┐ ┌ └ ┤ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ │ ┼ █

Unix, CP/M, BBS[edit]

On many Unix systems and early dial-up bulletin board systems the only common standard for box-drawing characters was the VT100 alternate character set (see also: DEC Special Graphics). The escape sequence Esc ( 0 switched the codes for lower-case ASCII letters to draw this set, and the sequence Esc ( B switched back:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
6 ┘ ┐ ┌ └ ┼
7 ─ ├ ┤ ┴ ┬ │

On some terminals, these characters are not available at all, and the complexity of the escape sequences discouraged their use, so often only ASCII characters that approximate box-drawing characters are used, such as — (hyphen-minus), | (vertical bar), _ (underscore), = (equal sign) and + (plus sign) in a kind of ASCII art fashion.

Modern Unix terminal emulators use Unicode and thus have access to the line-drawing characters listed above.

Historical[edit]

Many microcomputers of the 1970s and 1980s had their own proprietary character sets, which also included box-drawing characters. Some of these sets, such as Commodore’s PETSCII, include box-drawing symbols with no corresponding Unicode character.

Sinclair[edit]

The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81 and Spectrum included a set of text semigraphics with block elements and dithering patterns in the ZX80 character set.

   
ZX81 semigraphics

BBC and Acorn[edit]

The BBC Micro could utilize the Teletext 7-bit character set, which had 128 box-drawing characters, whose code points were shared with the regular alphanumeric and punctuation characters. Control characters were used to switch between regular text and box drawing.[4]

Teletext G1 Block Mosaics Set:[5]

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
2 NBSP TRS-80 character 0x81.png TRS-80 character 0x82.png TRS-80 character 0x83.png TRS-80 character 0x84.png TRS-80 character 0x85.png TRS-80 character 0x86.png TRS-80 character 0x87.png TRS-80 character 0x88.png TRS-80 character 0x89.png TRS-80 character 0x8A.png TRS-80 character 0x8B.png TRS-80 character 0x8C.png TRS-80 character 0x8D.png TRS-80 character 0x8E.png TRS-80 character 0x8F.png
3 TRS-80 character 0x90.png TRS-80 character 0x91.png TRS-80 character 0x92.png TRS-80 character 0x93.png TRS-80 character 0x94.png TRS-80 character 0x95.png TRS-80 character 0x96.png TRS-80 character 0x97.png TRS-80 character 0x98.png TRS-80 character 0x99.png TRS-80 character 0x9A.png TRS-80 character 0x9B.png TRS-80 character 0x9C.png TRS-80 character 0x9D.png TRS-80 character 0x9E.png TRS-80 character 0x9F.png
6 TRS-80 character 0xA0.png TRS-80 character 0xA1.png TRS-80 character 0xA2.png TRS-80 character 0xA3.png TRS-80 character 0xA4.png TRS-80 character 0xA5.png TRS-80 character 0xA6.png TRS-80 character 0xA7.png TRS-80 character 0xA8.png TRS-80 character 0xA9.png TRS-80 character 0xAA.png TRS-80 character 0xAB.png TRS-80 character 0xAC.png TRS-80 character 0xAD.png TRS-80 character 0xAE.png TRS-80 character 0xAF.png
7 TRS-80 character 0xB0.png TRS-80 character 0xB1.png TRS-80 character 0xB2.png TRS-80 character 0xB3.png TRS-80 character 0xB4.png TRS-80 character 0xB5.png TRS-80 character 0xB6.png TRS-80 character 0xB7.png TRS-80 character 0xB8.png TRS-80 character 0xB9.png TRS-80 character 0xBA.png TRS-80 character 0xBB.png TRS-80 character 0xBC.png TRS-80 character 0xBD.png TRS-80 character 0xBE.png TRS-80 character 0xBF.png

The BBC Master and later Acorn computers have the soft font by default defined with line drawing characters.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
A ╷ ╶ ┌ ╴ ┐ ─ ┬ ╵ │ └ ├ ┘ ┤ ┴ ┼
B ╭ ╮ ╰ ╯

Amstrad[edit]

The Amstrad CPC character set also has soft characters defined by default as block and line drawing characters.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8 ▘ ▝ ▀ ▖ ▍ ▞ ▛ ▗ ▚ ▐ ▜ ▃ ▙ ▟ ▉
9 ╵ ╶ └ ╷ │ ┌ ├ ╴ ┘ ─ ┴ ┐ ┤ ┬ ┼

The CP/M Plus character set used on various Amstrad computers of the CPC, PCW and Spectrum families included a rich set of line-drawing characters as well:[6][7][8]

[6] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8 ╧ ╟ ╚ ╤ ║ ╔ ╠ ╢ ╝ ═ ╩ ╗ ╣ ╦ ╬
9 ╵ ╶ └ ╷ │ ┌ ├ ╴ ┘ ─ ┴ ┐ ┤ ┬ ┼

Apple[edit]

MouseText is a set of display characters for the Apple IIc, IIe, and IIGS that includes box-drawing characters.

Teletext[edit]

The World System Teletext (WST) uses pixel-drawing characters for some graphics. A character cell is divided in 2×3 regions, and 26 = 64 code positions are allocated for all possible combinations of pixels.[9] These characters were added to the Unicode standard in Version 13.[10]

Others[edit]

Some recent embedded systems also use proprietary character sets, usually extensions to ISO 8859 character sets, which include box-drawing characters or other special symbols.

Character code[edit]

On many platforms, the character shape is determined programmatically from the character code.

  • ZX Spectrum block characters:
    0x80 + topright*1 + topleft*2 + bottomright*4 + bottomleft*8
  • Amstrad CPC block characters:
    0x80 + topleft*1 + topright*2 + bottomleft*4 + bottomright*8
  • Amstrad CPC line characters:
    0x90 + up*1 + right*2 + down*4 + left*8
  • BBC Master line characters:
    0xA0 + down*1 + right*2 + left*4 + up*8
  • Teletext block characters:
    0xA0 + topleft*1 + topright*2 + middleleft*4 + middleright*8 + bottomleft*16 + bottomright*64

However, DOS line- and box-drawing characters are not ordered in any programmatic manner, so calculating a particular character shape needs to use a look-up table.

Examples[edit]

Sample diagrams made out of the standard box-drawing characters, using a monospaced font: 

┌─┬┐  ╔═╦╗  ╓─╥╖  ╒═╤╕
│ ││  ║ ║║  ║ ║║  │ ││
├─┼┤  ╠═╬╣  ╟─╫╢  ╞═╪╡
└─┴┘  ╚═╩╝  ╙─╨╜  ╘═╧╛
┌───────────────────┐
│  ╔═══╗ Some Text  │▒
│  ╚═╦═╝ in the box │▒
╞═╤══╩══╤═══════════╡▒
│ ├──┬──┤           │▒
│ └──┴──┘           │▒
└───────────────────┘▒
 ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒

See also[edit]

  • Unicode symbols
  • Dingbat
  • Box Drawing (Unicode Block)
  • Block Elements (Unicode Block)
  • Geometric Shapes (Unicode Block)
  • List of Unicode characters
  • Text-based (computing)
  • Text semigraphics
  • ASCII art and ANSI art
  • MouseText

References[edit]

  1. ^ Box Drawing U+2500-U+257F, The Unicode Standard Code Charts
  2. ^ a b Hewlett-Packard — Technical Reference Manual — Portable PLUS (1 ed.). Corvallis, OR, USA: Hewlett-Packard Company, Portable Computer Division. August 1985. 45559-90001. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  3. ^ a b Hewlett-Packard — Technical Reference Manual — Portable PLUS (PDF) (2 ed.). Portable Computer Division, Corvallis, OR, USA: Hewlett-Packard Company. December 1986 [August 1985]. 45559-90006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  4. ^ Broadcast Teletext Specification, September 1976 (as HTML or scans of original document)
  5. ^ https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_i_ets/300700_300799/300706/01_60/ets_300706e01p.pdf#page=126[bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ a b «Appendix II: CP/M Plus character sets / II.1 The complete character set (Language 0)». Spectrum +3 CP/M Plus manual (User Manual). Archived from the original on 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2017-07-10. [1]
  7. ^ Elliott, John C. (2015-04-04). «Amstrad Extended BIOS Internals». Seasip.info. Archived from the original on 2017-07-15. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  8. ^ «Amstrad CP/M Plus character set». Archived from the original on 2017-07-15. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  9. ^ Wiels. «TeleText — Het Protocol» (in Dutch). Mosaic characters. Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  10. ^ «Symbols for Legacy Computing» (PDF). Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
Источник

  • Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane

    • Basic Latin

      0000—007F

    • Latin-1 Supplement

      0080—00FF

    • Latin Extended-A

      0100—017F

    • Latin Extended-B

      0180—024F

    • IPA Extensions

      0250—02AF

    • Spacing Modifier Letters

      02B0—02FF

    • Combining Diacritical Marks

      0300—036F

    • Greek and Coptic

      0370—03FF

    • Cyrillic

      0400—04FF

    • Cyrillic Supplement

      0500—052F

    • Armenian

      0530—058F

    • Hebrew

      0590—05FF

    • Arabic

      0600—06FF

    • Syriac

      0700—074F

    • Arabic Supplement

      0750—077F

    • Thaana

      0780—07BF

    • NKo

      07C0—07FF

    • Samaritan

      0800—083F

    • Mandaic

      0840—085F

    • Syriac Supplement

      0860—086F

    • Arabic Extended-B

      0870—089F

    • Arabic Extended-A

      08A0—08FF

    • Devanagari

      0900—097F

    • Bengali

      0980—09FF

    • Gurmukhi

      0A00—0A7F

    • Gujarati

      0A80—0AFF

    • Oriya

      0B00—0B7F

    • Tamil

      0B80—0BFF

    • Telugu

      0C00—0C7F

    • Kannada

      0C80—0CFF

    • Malayalam

      0D00—0D7F

    • Sinhala

      0D80—0DFF

    • Thai

      0E00—0E7F

    • Lao

      0E80—0EFF

    • Tibetan

      0F00—0FFF

    • Myanmar

      1000—109F

    • Georgian

      10A0—10FF

    • Hangul Jamo

      1100—11FF

    • Ethiopic

      1200—137F

    • Ethiopic Supplement

      1380—139F

    • Cherokee

      13A0—13FF

    • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

      1400—167F

    • Ogham

      1680—169F

    • Runic

      16A0—16FF

    • Tagalog

      1700—171F

    • Hanunoo

      1720—173F

    • Buhid

      1740—175F

    • Tagbanwa

      1760—177F

    • Khmer

      1780—17FF

    • Mongolian

      1800—18AF

    • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended

      18B0—18FF

    • Limbu

      1900—194F

    • Tai Le

      1950—197F

    • New Tai Lue

      1980—19DF

    • Khmer Symbols

      19E0—19FF

    • Buginese

      1A00—1A1F

    • Tai Tham

      1A20—1AAF

    • Combining Diacritical Marks Extended

      1AB0—1AFF

    • Balinese

      1B00—1B7F

    • Sundanese

      1B80—1BBF

    • Batak

      1BC0—1BFF

    • Lepcha

      1C00—1C4F

    • Ol Chiki

      1C50—1C7F

    • Cyrillic Extended C

      1C80—1C8F

    • Georgian Extended

      1C90—1CBF

    • Sundanese Supplement

      1CC0—1CCF

    • Vedic Extensions

      1CD0—1CFF

    • Phonetic Extensions

      1D00—1D7F

    • Phonetic Extensions Supplement

      1D80—1DBF

    • Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement

      1DC0—1DFF

    • Latin Extended Additional

      1E00—1EFF

    • Greek Extended

      1F00—1FFF

    • General Punctuation

      2000—206F

    • Superscripts and Subscripts

      2070—209F

    • Currency Symbols

      20A0—20CF

    • Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols

      20D0—20FF

    • Letterlike Symbols

      2100—214F

    • Number Forms

      2150—218F

    • Arrows

      2190—21FF

    • Mathematical Operators

      2200—22FF

    • Miscellaneous Technical

      2300—23FF

    • Control Pictures

      2400—243F

    • Optical Character Recognition

      2440—245F

    • Enclosed Alphanumerics

      2460—24FF

    • Box Drawing

      2500—257F

    • Block Elements

      2580—259F

    • Geometric Shapes

      25A0—25FF

    • Miscellaneous Symbols

      2600—26FF

    • Dingbats

      2700—27BF

    • Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A

      27C0—27EF

    • Supplemental Arrows-A

      27F0—27FF

    • Braille Patterns

      2800—28FF

    • Supplemental Arrows-B

      2900—297F

    • Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B

      2980—29FF

    • Supplemental Mathematical Operators

      2A00—2AFF

    • Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

      2B00—2BFF

    • Glagolitic

      2C00—2C5F

    • Latin Extended-C

      2C60—2C7F

    • Coptic

      2C80—2CFF

    • Georgian Supplement

      2D00—2D2F

    • Tifinagh

      2D30—2D7F

    • Ethiopic Extended

      2D80—2DDF

    • Cyrillic Extended-A

      2DE0—2DFF

    • Supplemental Punctuation

      2E00—2E7F

    • CJK Radicals Supplement

      2E80—2EFF

    • Kangxi Radicals

      2F00—2FDF

    • Ideographic Description Characters

      2FF0—2FFF

    • CJK Symbols and Punctuation

      3000—303F

    • Hiragana

      3040—309F

    • Katakana

      30A0—30FF

    • Bopomofo

      3100—312F

    • Hangul Compatibility Jamo

      3130—318F

    • Kanbun

      3190—319F

    • Bopomofo Extended

      31A0—31BF

    • CJK Strokes

      31C0—31EF

    • Katakana Phonetic Extensions

      31F0—31FF

    • Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

      3200—32FF

    • CJK Compatibility

      3300—33FF

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A

      3400—4DBF

    • Yijing Hexagram Symbols

      4DC0—4DFF

    • CJK Unified Ideographs

      4E00—9FFF

    • Yi Syllables

      A000—A48F

    • Yi Radicals

      A490—A4CF

    • Lisu

      A4D0—A4FF

    • Vai

      A500—A63F

    • Cyrillic Extended-B

      A640—A69F

    • Bamum

      A6A0—A6FF

    • Modifier Tone Letters

      A700—A71F

    • Latin Extended-D

      A720—A7FF

    • Syloti Nagri

      A800—A82F

    • Common Indic Number Forms

      A830—A83F

    • Phags-pa

      A840—A87F

    • Saurashtra

      A880—A8DF

    • Devanagari Extended

      A8E0—A8FF

    • Kayah Li

      A900—A92F

    • Rejang

      A930—A95F

    • Hangul Jamo Extended-A

      A960—A97F

    • Javanese

      A980—A9DF

    • Myanmar Extended-B

      A9E0—A9FF

    • Cham

      AA00—AA5F

    • Myanmar Extended-A

      AA60—AA7F

    • Tai Viet

      AA80—AADF

    • Meetei Mayek Extensions

      AAE0—AAFF

    • Ethiopic Extended-A

      AB00—AB2F

    • Latin Extended-E

      AB30—AB6F

    • Cherokee Supplement

      AB70—ABBF

    • Meetei Mayek

      ABC0—ABFF

    • Hangul Syllables

      AC00—D7AF

    • Hangul Jamo Extended-B

      D7B0—D7FF

    • High Surrogates

      D800—DB7F

    • High Private Use Surrogates

      DB80—DBFF

    • Low Surrogates

      DC00—DFFF

    • Private Use Area

      E000—F8FF

    • CJK Compatibility Ideographs

      F900—FAFF

    • Alphabetic Presentation Forms

      FB00—FB4F

    • Arabic Presentation Forms-A

      FB50—FDFF

    • Variation Selectors

      FE00—FE0F

    • Vertical Forms

      FE10—FE1F

    • Combining Half Marks

      FE20—FE2F

    • CJK Compatibility Forms

      FE30—FE4F

    • Small Form Variants

      FE50—FE6F

    • Arabic Presentation Forms-B

      FE70—FEFF

    • Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

      FF00—FFEF

    • Specials

      FFF0—FFFF

  • Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane

    • Linear B Syllabary

      10000—1007F

    • Linear B Ideograms

      10080—100FF

    • Aegean Numbers

      10100—1013F

    • Ancient Greek Numbers

      10140—1018F

    • Ancient Symbols

      10190—101CF

    • Phaistos Disc

      101D0—101FF

    • Lycian

      10280—1029F

    • Carian

      102A0—102DF

    • Coptic Epact Numbers

      102E0—102FF

    • Old Italic

      10300—1032F

    • Gothic

      10330—1034F

    • Old Permic

      10350—1037F

    • Ugaritic

      10380—1039F

    • Old Persian

      103A0—103DF

    • Deseret

      10400—1044F

    • Shavian

      10450—1047F

    • Osmanya

      10480—104AF

    • Osage

      104B0—104FF

    • Elbasan

      10500—1052F

    • Caucasian Albanian

      10530—1056F

    • Vithkuqi

      10570—105BF

    • Linear A

      10600—1077F

    • Latin Extended-F

      10780—107BF

    • Cypriot Syllabary

      10800—1083F

    • Imperial Aramaic

      10840—1085F

    • Palmyrene

      10860—1087F

    • Nabataean

      10880—108AF

    • Hatran

      108E0—108FF

    • Phoenician

      10900—1091F

    • Lydian

      10920—1093F

    • Meroitic Hieroglyphs

      10980—1099F

    • Meroitic Cursive

      109A0—109FF

    • Kharoshthi

      10A00—10A5F

    • Old South Arabian

      10A60—10A7F

    • Old North Arabian

      10A80—10A9F

    • Manichaean

      10AC0—10AFF

    • Avestan

      10B00—10B3F

    • Inscriptional Parthian

      10B40—10B5F

    • Inscriptional Pahlavi

      10B60—10B7F

    • Psalter Pahlavi

      10B80—10BAF

    • Old Turkic

      10C00—10C4F

    • Old Hungarian

      10C80—10CFF

    • Hanifi Rohingya

      10D00—10D3F

    • Rumi Numeral Symbols

      10E60—10E7F

    • Yezidi

      10E80—10EBF

    • Arabic Extended-C

      10EC0—10EFF

    • Old Sogdian

      10F00—10F2F

    • Sogdian

      10F30—10F6F

    • Old Uyghur

      10F70—10FAF

    • Chorasmian

      10FB0—10FDF

    • Elymaic

      10FE0—10FFF

    • Brahmi

      11000—1107F

    • Kaithi

      11080—110CF

    • Sora Sompeng

      110D0—110FF

    • Chakma

      11100—1114F

    • Mahajani

      11150—1117F

    • Sharada

      11180—111DF

    • Sinhala Archaic Numbers

      111E0—111FF

    • Khojki

      11200—1124F

    • Multani

      11280—112AF

    • Khudawadi

      112B0—112FF

    • Grantha

      11300—1137F

    • Newa

      11400—1147F

    • Tirhuta

      11480—114DF

    • Siddham

      11580—115FF

    • Modi

      11600—1165F

    • Mongolian Supplement

      11660—1167F

    • Takri

      11680—116CF

    • Ahom

      11700—1174F

    • Dogra

      11800—1184F

    • Warang Citi

      118A0—118FF

    • Dives Akuru

      11900—1195F

    • Nandinagari

      119A0—119FF

    • Zanabazar Square

      11A00—11A4F

    • Soyombo

      11A50—11AAF

    • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A

      11AB0—11ABF

    • Pau Cin Hau

      11AC0—11AFF

    • Devanagari Extended-A

      11B00—11B5F

    • Bhaiksuki

      11C00—11C6F

    • Marchen

      11C70—11CBF

    • Masaram Gondi

      11D00—11D5F

    • Gunjala Gondi

      11D60—11DAF

    • Makasar

      11EE0—11EFF

    • Kawi

      11F00—11F5F

    • Lisu Supplement

      11FB0—11FBF

    • Tamil Supplement

      11FC0—11FFF

    • Cuneiform

      12000—123FF

    • Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation

      12400—1247F

    • Early Dynastic Cuneiform

      12480—1254F

    • Cypro-Minoan

      12F90—12FFF

    • Egyptian Hieroglyphs

      13000—1342F

    • Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls

      13430—1345F

    • Anatolian Hieroglyphs

      14400—1467F

    • Bamum Supplement

      16800—16A3F

    • Mro

      16A40—16A6F

    • Tangsa

      16A70—16ACF

    • Bassa Vah

      16AD0—16AFF

    • Pahawh Hmong

      16B00—16B8F

    • Medefaidrin

      16E40—16E9F

    • Miao

      16F00—16F9F

    • Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation

      16FE0—16FFF

    • Tangut

      17000—187FF

    • Tangut Components

      18800—18AFF

    • Khitan Small Script

      18B00—18CFF

    • Tangut Supplement

      18D00—18D7F

    • Kana Extended-B

      1AFF0—1AFFF

    • Kana Supplement

      1B000—1B0FF

    • Kana Extended-A

      1B100—1B12F

    • Small Kana Extension

      1B130—1B16F

    • Nushu

      1B170—1B2FF

    • Duployan

      1BC00—1BC9F

    • Shorthand Format Controls

      1BCA0—1BCAF

    • Znamenny Musical Notation

      1CF00—1CFCF

    • Byzantine Musical Symbols

      1D000—1D0FF

    • Musical Symbols

      1D100—1D1FF

    • Ancient Greek Musical Notation

      1D200—1D24F

    • Kaktovik Numerals

      1D2C0—1D2DF

    • Mayan Numerals

      1D2E0—1D2FF

    • Tai Xuan Jing Symbols

      1D300—1D35F

    • Counting Rod Numerals

      1D360—1D37F

    • Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

      1D400—1D7FF

    • Sutton SignWriting

      1D800—1DAAF

    • Latin Extended-G

      1DF00—1DFFF

    • Glagolitic Supplement

      1E000—1E02F

    • Cyrillic Extended-D

      1E030—1E08F

    • Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong

      1E100—1E14F

    • Toto

      1E290—1E2BF

    • Wancho

      1E2C0—1E2FF

    • Nag Mundari

      1E4D0—1E4FF

    • Ethiopic Extended-B

      1E7E0—1E7FF

    • Mende Kikakui

      1E800—1E8DF

    • Adlam

      1E900—1E95F

    • Indic Siyaq Numbers

      1EC70—1ECBF

    • Ottoman Siyaq Numbers

      1ED00—1ED4F

    • Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols

      1EE00—1EEFF

    • Mahjong Tiles

      1F000—1F02F

    • Domino Tiles

      1F030—1F09F

    • Playing Cards

      1F0A0—1F0FF

    • Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement

      1F100—1F1FF

    • Enclosed Ideographic Supplement

      1F200—1F2FF

    • Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

      1F300—1F5FF

    • Emoticons (Emoji)

      1F600—1F64F

    • Ornamental Dingbats

      1F650—1F67F

    • Transport and Map Symbols

      1F680—1F6FF

    • Alchemical Symbols

      1F700—1F77F

    • Geometric Shapes Extended

      1F780—1F7FF

    • Supplemental Arrows-C

      1F800—1F8FF

    • Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs

      1F900—1F9FF

    • Chess Symbols

      1FA00—1FA6F

    • Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A

      1FA70—1FAFF

    • Symbols for Legacy Computing

      1FB00—1FBFF

  • Plane 2: Supplementary Ideographic Plane

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B

      20000—2A6DF

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C

      2A700—2B73F

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D

      2B740—2B81F

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E

      2B820—2CEAF

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F

      2CEB0—2EBEF

    • CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

      2F800—2FA1F

  • Plane 3: Tertiary Ideographic Plane

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G

      30000—3134F

    • CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H

      31350—323AF

  • Plane 4-13: Not used

  • Plane 14: Supplement­ary Special-purpose Plane

    • Tags

      E0000—E007F

    • Variation Selectors Supplement

      E0100—E01EF

  • Plane 15: Supplement­ary Private Use Area plane — A

    • Supplementary Private Use Area-A

      F0000—FFFFF

  • Plane 16: Supplement­ary Private Use Area plane — B

    • Supplementary Private Use Area-B

      100000—10FFFF

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This post will cover several methods for inserting the X in a Box symbol in Microsoft Word, Windows, and Mac, including using keyboard shortcuts.

However, before we begin, you may get this symbol by copying and pasting it from the button below.

X in a Box Symbol Alt Code Shortcut (MS Word for Windows)

The Alt Code shortcut for the X in a Box Symbol is Alt + 9746. To type with this method, press and hold one of the Alt keys on your keyboard while using the numeric keypad to enter the Alt code, then release the Alt key.

This method works only in Microsoft Word on Windows, and it requires that your keyboard have a separate numeric keypad with Num Lock enabled.

On Windows, alt codes like this are used to type symbols or characters that are not available on the keyboard.

This method is extremely beneficial because it saves a significant amount of time when trying to type special characters like the Ballot Box.

The following are the detailed steps you can take to type this symbol on Windows using the Alt Code keyboard shortcut:

  • Open your Word document where the symbol is to be typed.
  • The cursor should be positioned in the desired location.
  • Press and hold on to one of your Alt Keys.
  • As you hold down the Alt key, use the numeric keypad on the right to type the X in a Box Alt code (9746)
  • Release the alt key after typing the code.

As soon as you let go of the Alt key, the Ballot Box symbol will appear.

The following rules must be followed in order for the X in a Box Alt Code to work.

  • Before typing the code, you must hold down the Alt key.
  • To type the alt code, you must use the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard.
  • The NumLock must be enabled because you are using the 10-key numeric keypad. When you turn off NumLock, the number keys become disabled, and you won’t be able to type any numbers.
  • If you’re using a laptop that doesn’t have a numeric keypad, you’ll need to activate the hidden numeric keypad first. On most laptops, you can turn it on by pressing the Fn + NmLk keys at the same time. A hidden numeric keypad isn’t found on every laptop. If it doesn’t appear in yours, you won’t be able to type symbols using the alt code method unless you connect an external keyboard with a numeric keypad or use the on-screen keyboard. Yet still, you can use the other methods discussed in this guide.
  • You should also be aware that, depending on the text editor you’re using, not all symbols can be typed with the alt code. Only Microsoft Word recognizes some of the alt codes.

You can also obtain the X in a Box symbol on Mac using the Character Viewer.

The Character Viewer is a place on Mac where you can add special characters and symbols to text, such as math symbols, Latin characters, and pictographs.

Obey the following steps to insert this (☒) and any other symbol on Mac.

  1. Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol.
  2. Press Control + Command + Space bar to bring up the Character Viewer. Alternatively, choose Edit > Emoji & Symbols.
  3. Type “Ballot Box with X” in the search field at the top and press Enter.
  4. The symbol should appear. Kindly click on it to insert it into your text.

These are the steps you may use to insert this and any other symbol on Mac using the Character Viewer.

Shortcut to type X in a Box Sign (MS Word)

MS Word shortcut to type the X in a Box symbol is 2612, Alt + X.

To use this shortcut, open your Microsoft Word document, position the insertion pointer where you want to type the Ballot Box symbol, and then follow the simple instructions below:

  • Simply type 2612.
  • Then press Alt plus X simultaneously.
  • If it doesn’t work, highlight the code before pressing the Alt and X keys simultaneously.

When you press Alt + X after typing the Unicode, the symbol appears in place of the Unicode.

Insert X in a Box Symbol from the Office Symbol Library

If using the keyboard isn’t your thing, there’s also a mouse-based method for getting the X in a Box symbol in Office apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

To explain the steps, we’ll use screenshots of Microsoft Word. You can, however, use the same method in Excel and PowerPoint.

Without further ado, here are the steps to take:

  • Launch MS Word or Excel or PowerPoint.
  • Place your cursor at the desired place.
  • Navigate to the Insert tab.
Go to the Insert tab
  • Click the Symbols button in the Symbols group, then select More Symbols from the drop-down menu.
More Symbols

The Symbol window will appear. It contains a gazillion of symbols which include the Ballot Box symbol.

  • Find the X in a Box symbol in the symbol library.

To easily locate this symbol, use the Subset dropdown list to display specific types of symbols. You can find the X in a Box symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols group in the Subset list under the Segoe UI Symbol font.

However, the fastest way to get this symbol is to type the Unicode 2612 in the Character code text box. Once you type the Unicode, the X in a Box symbol will be filtered out and selected.

  • To insert it into your document, simply double-click on it. Alternatively, click the Insert button.
  • Close the Dialog.

If you follow the above steps carefully, you can insert the X in a Box symbol in Word or any other symbol or character not available on the keyboard.

Copy and Paste X in a Box Symbol

This is by far the simplest way to obtain any symbol, including the X in a Box sign.

You simply need to copy the symbol somewhere, such as a web page and then press Ctrl + V after switching to the document where you need it.

If you want to copy the symbol, you can do so below.

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If you have a Windows PC, the steps below will show you how to copy this symbol from the Character Map.

  • Search and Launch the Character Map app.
  • Change the Font to Segoe UI Symbol.
  • Near the button, select the Advance View checkbox to expand more Character map options.
Advanced view on Windows Character map
  • In the Advanced view, you will see a search box. Type Ballot Box with X in there and press Enter.
  • The symbol will appear in the search results.
  • Simply double click on it and hit on the Copy button after it is selected in the Characters to copy text box.

Conclusion

Obtaining symbols like the X in a Box that do not have keys on the keyboard can be difficult.

However, with the assistance of the methods and instructions discussed here, it should no longer be a difficult task.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this guide.

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