How to Draw With Text in Notepad

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Want to make a drawing out of text and other keyboard characters? We'll show you how to draw a picture entirely from text, including special characters you can create with Alt codes, in the Notepad app for Windows.

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    They include the following characters:
    • A slash, / or \, is used for drawing a slant line.
    • A hyphen, -, is used to make a dashed horizontal line.
    • An underscore, _, is used to make a continuous horizontal line.
    • A 'shift + \', resulting in |, is used to make a dashed vertical line.
    • The brackets, including (), [] or {}, are used to make the end of a rectangle.
    • The 'numbers square', #, is used to make a grid.
    • The space bar is needed, too!
    • You might find some use for any other characters, like the 'greater than' and 'less than' signs, < and >, or the percentage sign, %, etc.
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    These codes might give you some options, like the playing cards shapes, ♥♦♣♠ (alt + 3, alt + 4, alt + 5 and alt + 6 on the numeric keypad only ). This website might be of some help to you: http://alt-codes.org/list/ .
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    • Open the notepad program; go to format; click on 'Word Wrap' to switch it on.
    • Go to format again; click on 'font'; then set the text to 'Lucida Console', regular and 20.
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    Try to draw a rectangle to see if it works with you or not.
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    What keys to push for straight lines going down?
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    Shift+/ then enter and then Shift+/. This will make straight lines going down.
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