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   sunforgedposted 9 years ago

   Many often use these symbols in their Titles and URLs  "|"
   
   I am embarrassed to say, I never knew how this was done with a  PC keyboard and always just pasted them in.
   
   So for any who were similarly ignorant
   
   Its Shift and the button between  | enter | and | backspace |
   
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   Happy, I am.

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      mc23gposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Speaking of cool keyboard characters, I figured out how to write a really cool character, press  ALT + F4. Check out what it types: ¼ + ½ = ¾. Neato!
      
      

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      Sue Adamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      It ain't on my Spanish keyboard.

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   Aya Katzposted 9 years ago

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   lakeerieartistsposted 9 years ago

     Wow, I actually knew something before you.

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   Cagsilposted 9 years ago

   Okay. | am doing well. Is that better?
   
   Maybe, | is a college graduette.

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   jenblacksheepposted 9 years ago

   My keyboard doesn't have a button between Enter and Backspace

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      sunforgedposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      it usually has these two symbols [ \ | ]

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   WaffleCheeseposted 9 years ago

   Fun fact!!!
   
   It's actually called the 'Pipe' key.
   
   Love,
   
   Wafflecheese.

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   sunforgedposted 9 years ago

   with wafflecheese's useful terminology I was able to find this
   
   

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   WriteAngledposted 9 years ago

   My | is on the other side of the keyboard between Shift and Z.

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      IzzyMposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      So's mine ||||

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         camloposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Mine too, but my 'Z' is a 'Y' - it's a German keyboard. |||
         Took me ages this evening to work out how it's done ...

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            IzzyMposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            Ah well my laptop is English - to me if I ever have to buy a Spanish keyboard it'll be because this one went caput and I didn't have time to hop over the UK to buy one.
            Apparently Windows 7 when it is pre-installed has a language option, but when a Spanish shop wants to sell you it, they automatically set it to Spanish even if you want it to be in English!
            Between that and a weird keyboard I'll stick to a UK model lol

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               camloposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               The worst thing about using a non-English keyboard is that you can't use an English one once you've got used to it. I have the keys Ü, Ä, Ö and ß, which mis-places many other keys - from an English POV.

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   jenblacksheepposted 9 years ago

   Oh, this one ... |!!! It's between the Shift and the Z on my laptop keyboard.

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    blondepoetposted 9 years ago

    |||||||||\\\
    Wow I never knew it existed thanks Sun.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 9 years ago

    How exciting |

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    lxxyposted 9 years ago

    (<>..<>)
    
    I failed.

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       rebekahELLEposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          hey, mine look different. my upper symbol is broken in half.
       
       ||||||| this is o.k.
       
       I feel like a little kid in preschool who just learned how to hold a pencil.

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    elayne001posted 9 years ago

    \||||||||||??//??>< |||||||
    
    mine are not as close are you all - what am I doing wrong?

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    myownworldposted 9 years ago

    oohh... it's easy to get carried away with these now....!  ||||||||||||||

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    frogdroppingposted 9 years ago

    lol cool. ||||| Mine is somewhere else altogther. It's top left, shift button below, esc above, the number 1 to it's right. Portuguese keyboard. Which why I can right things like:
    
    portugûes, a vida é boa, as condições são terríveis, HubPages é fantástico, não é?! - without hunting for special characters.
    
    Still, I can also make pipe key strokes to my heart's content, only the Portuguese seem to like a few millimeters between strokes
    
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    And an oldie but goodie: <3)~

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       Faybe Bayposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       Funny I was getting upset, couldn't find mine. It's where yours is. ||||||||||||||||||| Oh cool!

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          Sue Adamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

          YESSS! I finally found it on my Spanish keyboard. It's
          Control/Alt and press No.1 key. But it doesn't actually appear on the key. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction Frogdropping. |||||||||||||. Never knew it was called a pipe.

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    jenblacksheepposted 9 years ago

    I have an entirely different button under my Esc button. It has three characters on it but I can only get two of them to show, ¬ and ` the third one is like the | but with a gap in the middle and I don't know which button to press with it to make it work.

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       sunforgedposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       the third option on a keyboard is achieved with the Fn (function) key on most laptops
       
       alternately you can try "alt + (key with 3 functions)" or ctrl + (key with 3 functions) or even shift +alt + (key with 3 functions)
       
       usually laptops have a color coded way of telling you this

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    Jayne Lancerposted 9 years ago

    My keyboard is a little different. Let's have a go ... |Yes?|

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    Ohmaposted 9 years ago

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    Wendy Krickposted 9 years ago

    I just learned this myself a few months ago.

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    timorousposted 9 years ago

    Well...now that you've got your pipe, you can smoke it
    
    [Seriously] though, it's most often used to separate words or phrases like:
    
    First | Second | Third | Fourth  ...and so on.
    
    Wow....aren't we having fuunnn
    And we're learnin' too!

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       camloposted 9 years agoin reply to this

       Oh yes! I'm really looking forward to using my ||||

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    KeithTaxposted 9 years ago

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       Justine76posted 9 years agoin reply to this

         show off....

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    Rafiniposted 9 years ago

    I found this key a few months ago but still don't understand why the key has a space in the middle when the character doesn't |||||
    
    <3)~  (too cute!  had to try it!)   
    
    
    
    
    Okay, so does anyone know how to put ~ above an 'n'? (on an American keyboard)

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    timorousposted 9 years ago

    For anyone who's interested, there's a whole bunch more characters beyond those available on your keyboard.  On a Windows PC, most of them are accessible by holding down the 'Alt' button and typing in the number code for the character using the number pad area on the (usually) right side of the keyboard.  If you're a MAC, it's probably different, but the codes are the same.
    
    Here's a link to the ASCII codes and characters:
    
    http://ascii-table.com/ansi-codes.php
    (hint: use the number in the 'DEC' column)
    
    Happy hunting, boys and girls

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    ns1209posted 9 years ago

    Yay found mine after a couple of minutes.
    
    On my laptop it is between shift and z
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    |||pipe|||

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    lxxyposted 9 years ago

    ((><))
    
    It's KENNY!

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