Depending on your application, you may be able to make special and fancy characters by using your ALT key at a combination of numbers on your number pad. Such character include the common card symbols: spade, club, diamond and heart. They also include foreign letters, such as those with umlauts or accents. A giant list of alt key codes can be found at this web page:
. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html. They do not work in some programs, but more word-processing type software are fully compatible with them.
