Alt Code Shortcuts for Square Symbols

Do you know you can insert almost hundred types of square symbols in your documents? Default Windows and Mac keyboards do not have any special key for inserting square symbols. However, you can easily insert them using alt code shortcuts and emoji panel. Check out separate articles, if you are looking for encircled numbers inside square shape or list of alt code shortcuts for circle symbols.

Alt Code Shortcuts for Square Symbols

Here is a complete list of alt code shortcuts for square symbols.

How to Insert Square Symbols in Windows?

There are multiple ways to insert square symbols in Windows based documents like Word or PowerPoint.

Using Alt or Decimal Code

Hold one of alt keys and then type the numbers using number pad. For example, Alt + 10062 will produce the negative squared cross mark symbol as ❎.

Using Hexadecimal Code

Enter the hexadecimal code as given in the last column of the above table and then press alt and x keys. This will convert the code into corresponding square symbol. For example, 2611 Alt X will insert a ballot square box with check mark symbol as ☑. However, this method will only work in Microsoft Word documents.

Using Symbol Utility or Character Map

Microsoft Office applications offer a Symbol utility that you can use to insert square symbols. This is an easy way to insert symbols in Excel as keyboard shortcuts may not work well in spreadsheets.

• Open any Office application and go to “Insert > Symbols” menu.
• This will open Symbol utility,
• Select the font as “Segoe UI Emoji” and the subset as “Geometric Shapes”.
• Double click on the square symbol to insert on your document.

Similarly, you can use an independent app called Character Map to insert the symbols.

Emoji Panel in Windows 10/11

Some of the square symbols are part of emoji and we have marked the name with emoji to identify them in the above table. Instead of alt codes, you can insert square emoji symbols using emoji panel in Windows 10/11 computers. Press “Win Logo + Dot” keys to open the panel and type square to filter relevant symbols. Click on the emoji to insert on your document.

Insert Square Symbols in Mac

There are two ways to insert these symbols on your macOS documents like Pages or Keynote.

Using Option Code Shortcuts

You can also use alt or option code shortcuts in macOS to insert the symbols. Change the input source to Unicode Hex Input and use the hex code as given in the above table. For example, option + 2BD0 will make the square position indicator symbol like ⯐. However, it works only for the 4 digits hex code.

Using Character Viewer App

Go to “Edit > Emoji & Symbols” menu from any app to open Character Viewer app. Using this app, you can search and insert these symbols including emoji.

Insert Squares in HTML

You can use decimal or hex code in the following format to insert symbols in HTML documents.

<span>&#9209;</span>
<span>&#x23F9;</span>

Symbol Variations

Windows documents like Word will show all these symbols as a line diagram. You can easily apply text effects, change the color, size and decorate them similar to any other text content on your document.

On Mac, the emoji will look solid while other symbols will a text. You can easily select the font variation for the available symbols from Character Viewer app.

Image Reference

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