The symbol carries some significance when it comes to writing reviews and success stories where you provide a star rating to highlight the experience you shared with a particular business. It can be used to alert others and guide them into choosing the best platform for their needs. If you are a teacher who through the medium of online classes, is busily preparing digital worksheets for short examinations, then a star rating can act as an intimation for children over their performance. Thus, learning how to type this symbol is pivotal in today’s digitalized era which makes us cover this interesting topic to help you easily get the symbol in a few steps. Here is the guide for How To Type Star Symbol in Word?
Word document is widely used for writing reviews which means, we must first and foremost delve into……… You guessed it right. We begin with Microsoft Word!
In Microsoft Word
Step 1:
Open the empty Word document!
Step 2:
Look for the ‘Insert’ tab on the upper left corner of the word document right next to the ‘Home’ Tab.
Step 3:
Tap the ‘Symbol’ option to the extreme right of the ‘Insert’ tab and select the ‘More Symbols’ option to open up a dialogue box.
Step 4:
(Follow the arrow sign above) Select the Font style as ‘Wingdings 2’ from the options in the box.
Step 5:
Change the ‘Character code’ to either 243, 244, or 249 to get Star Symbols. Tap Insert and bob’s your uncle! You’re done.
Alternative to getting a ‘Star’ symbol In Word
Step 1:
In the ‘Insert’ tab, look for the ‘Shapes’ option.
Step 2:
After tapping the ‘Shapes’ option, a dialogue box with other choices opens up. Scroll down to ‘Stars and Banners’ and select any star you want to insert on your word document.
Step 3:
Simply drag the cursor to get the shape directly!
Step 4:
Simply tap on the shape to surround it with a box like this which denotes its selection and resize it as per your requirements.
The third alternative comprises an Alt shortcut to get a cute little star on your word document. Let us learn that too, in a few steps.
Third Alternative way
Step 1:
Open the empty Word document.
Step 2:
Type 2729 on the document where you want the star.
Step 3:
Press the Alt key and X letter on your keyboard at the same time to get this symbol. If you are wondering how the order of pressing the keys in accordance to the typing should be, then let me clarify that you must first write the shortcut code- 2729 and later press Alt+X which will magically cause the code to change into that symbol. Now you can use this technique to create as many stars as you want to rate effectively!
And that’s how I give a five star to these incredibly easy techniques of creating these symbols on Word! 😉
Let us not forget Windows in the process. What if we are expected to send an email rating a particular experience or use the notepad to make notes of our experience?
Let us understand the shortcut useful to this expedition through Notepad here!
Shortcut using Notepad
Step 1:
Open Notepad.
Step 2:
Consider either of these keys- (Upper arrow) Semicolon key and (Arrow beneath) Period key on your keyboard.
Step 3:
This is the Windows key which shall also be quintessential in helping gain this symbol.
Step 4:
Press the Windows key and either the semicolon key or period key at the same time to get this dialogue box of symbols.
Step 5:
In the Emoji section, tap the ‘car’ icon below and scroll deep down until you reach the ‘star’ symbols. Select any as per your choice.
After tapping on the golden star, this is how the finished product looks on the empty document.
Apply the steps given in the first alternative of getting the star symbol on Word to PowerPoint and Excel. The Wingdings 2 font is common to these Microsoft applications and the same character codes will work. What are you waiting for now? Begin writing lengthy reviews anywhere (excluding Excel of course, where these symbols aren’t used much. But one can use them as bullets). No longer should you hesitate in producing quality content and hovering your fingers over the keyboard as you type the Alt shortcuts like a pro! Feeling like a keyboard expert already, aren’t you?
