How to type exclamation mark without shift key?

I know you can type @ without it. But does anyone know how to do the exclamation mark without the shift key? Does it involve alt and something else or other button on keyboard?

 

Hi @Drew01.
On what keyboard layout?
You can also do it by pressing ALT+33

 

That works if you have a NUM pad

 

You could use the On Screen Keyboard with your mouse. In windows search, just search for OSK, or under start menu > accessories.

 

With the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator it's possible to change the keyboard. The changes are stored in a file, easy to apply on any computer.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboardlayouts.aspx

Check out youtube for how to use it.

 

Good old character map works too

 

for a silly answer, let's write a program to print the exclamation mark without using the shift key. you'll note that i'll also refrain from using the shift key in my post; don't ask, my keyboard suffered an unfortunate accident ;]

assuming you have python installed on your machine. if you don't have python already installed, you can install it from www.python.org. open the command line interface, cmd, and type

Code:

python

click enter. you'll be taken to a prompt which waits for a command. type the following and hit enter. this will go after the three greater-than symbols on the screen, which i cannot reproduce in the following snip.

Code:

print '\x21'

this will print the exclamation character to the output since that character is hex number 21 in the ascii code table, or decimal number 33 as noted previously. now you can copy-paste that character into whatever application you need it in.

now we need to exit from the python interpreter. we could simply hit the x button on the cmd window, or we could enter ctrl-d; the quit command would be better, though that requires parentheses, which require shift.


i spent way too long thinking about a witty way to do this. tried to use c first, but realized that i needed parentheses and the percentage symbol to call the printf function. tried php, needed the dollar sign. looked into html, but the escape characters require ampersand and the pound symbol. bash isn't able to be installed on windows unless you have windows 10 and change some settings. python is a common language and should probably be installed on your windows anyway since it probably came with a program you already use. plus, python allows a user to print any ascii character you want so long as you know the code for it. yay.