Occasionally I find the need to include an ellipsis in my writing. I could just use three periods, but that's bad typography. Is there a way to insert … just using the keyboard? Similar to how you can insert — by holding down Alt and pressing 0150 on the numberpad. Is there a similar combination for inserting an ellipsis?
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Ellipsis Related: Cannot use Alt code for Unicode character insertion any more – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Dec 11 '12 at 04:14
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In Windows it's alt+0133 on the numberpad.
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What can one do without a numberpad, commonly missing on laptops. Nevermind, https://superuser.com/questions/372748/how-to-input-special-characters-w-o-numpad – Screenack Jul 23 '17 at 15:40
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I would upvote this answer, but active participation on StackExchange feels too much like tacit endorsement of their terrible treatment of one of their most valued contributors. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overflow-is-doing-me-ongoing-harm-its-time-to-fix-it – faintsignal Nov 15 '19 at 01:15
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1@Screenack, on many laptops there is a special key that makes a part of the keyboard act as a numberpad. – hagello Oct 22 '20 at 07:21
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Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, etc.) accept the following shortcut:
Ctrl+Alt+.
(found by my pleasantly surprised cat)
