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Dylan Park

709 Points Posted November 14, 2014 7:38pm by Dylan Park

Dylan Park

709 Points how do I type front slash on windows laptop?

How do I type front slash - / this backwards - on windows laptop?

sorry wrong question. how do I type back slash? the only one on my keyboard is / .

Laura Cray

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Laura Cray

12,258 Points November 14, 2014 7:48pm

Keyboards, especially laptop keyboards tend to have different arrangements for their front and back slash keys, but you should have both on your keyboard. On mine, the front slash (/) is usually located down bellow the " key next to the shift key and the backslash () is usually located just above the enter key. Hope that helps answer your question.

Dustin Matlock

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Dustin Matlock

33,856 Points November 14, 2014 8:17pm

Laura Cray, if you add your response as an answer below, you can receive forum points for answering the question.

Fred Sites

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Fred Sites

11,151 Points November 14, 2014 9:12pm

It's likely below or near your delete key in the top right. Most computers have them separated as the / is used way more often than .

Laura Cray

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Laura Cray

12,258 Points November 14, 2014 10:00pm

Thank you, Dustin Matlock ! I somehow missed that there were both answers and comments to questions. I will look out for where I post in the future.

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Laura Cray

12,258 Points Laura Cray

Laura Cray

12,258 Points November 14, 2014 9:58pm

Keyboards, especially laptop keyboards tend to have different arrangements for their front and back slash keys, but you should have both on your keyboard. On mine, the front slash (/) is usually located down bellow the " key next to the shift key and the backslash () is usually located just above the enter key. Hope that helps answer your question.

Samuel Mayol

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Samuel Mayol

4,786 Points December 9, 2014 2:34am

Use ASCII Code to find any character that you are looking for, for example if you want a forward slash ( / ) use Alt + 47, if you are looking for a back slash ( \ ) use Alt + 92. It is easy you just have to keep press Alt key and on the numeric key hit the number, then stop pressing Alt key. If you do not know many of the ASCII Code or if you do not want to memorize all or some of them, here I gave you a link when you can find the number that you have to hit when you want to generate a special character that you cannot fine in your keyboard or if you are using a keyboard that is in different language, such as Spanish.

http://www.ascii-code.com/

I hope this can help you.

Randall Primeaux

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Randall Primeaux

796 Points November 15, 2014 10:22pm

A common location for backslash "\" on a traditional PC keyboard is on the same key as pipe "|". It may be near your [Delete] key on the right-hand side of the keyboard. What model is your laptop?

Brandon Meredith

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Brandon Meredith

29,350 Points December 7, 2014 11:32pm

Should be right under the Backspace key and should have the symbols "|" and "\"

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