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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Typing the Following "ALT Codes" (ie. in "Notepad") will make what happen? Choose the TRUE answer. Note: These are decimal numbers from the keypad in NUM lock mode.

Typing the Following "ALT Codes" (ie. in "Notepad") will make what happen? Choose the TRUE answer. Note: These are decimal numbers from the keypad in NUM lock mode.

  • ALT+255 makes the same character as pressing the Spacebar
  • ALT+022 Pastes whatever's in the buffer
  • ALT+008 creates a horizontal tab
  • ALT+013 makes a pagebreak 
Typing the Following "ALT Codes" (ie. in "Notepad") will make what happen? Choose the TRUE answer. Note: These are decimal numbers from the keypad in NUM lock mode.

EXPLANATION

ALT+022 does paste whatever characters you may have previously cut or copied.
ALT+255 make a character that "looks" like a space, but is not.  For fun, from command prompt, add ALT+255 to a directory name.  Then, try to DIR to it using the Spacebar!
ALT+008 Backspaces
ALT+013 is a Carriage Return
Here is a decent list of ASCII characters and their original functions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
The control characters have also been imported to WIndows-1252:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
and Unicode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters
While some of them may not work, you might be surprised how many do.  Especially when someone doesn't include them in a web form's regular expression to block them ;)  Have fun experimenting!

SOURCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
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