insert the Black Right Pointing Backhand Index 🖝 into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.
Black Right Pointing Backhand Index 🖝 symbol can be used as a creative bullet symbol in lists or to point a direction on a sign.
It’s the lesser known complement to Black Right Pointing index ☛
How Black Right Pointing Backhand Index 🖝 looks in different fonts.
As you can see Black Right Pointing Backhand Index 🖝 looks the same in most common Office fonts.
Compare that with Black Right Pointing hand which has some variation between fonts.
Black Right Pointing Backhand Index ? codes
These are the important code numbers or values you’ll need to enter the Black Right Pointing Backhand Index or ?
Decimal: 128413 Hex: 1F59D
Web: or 🖝 or 🖝
(web codes aren’t used in Microsoft Office, we’ve included them for the sake of completeness.)
Word and Outlook
The BLACK Right POINTING BACKHAND INDEX ? sign does NOT have an inbuilt shortcut in Word.
Use the standard Word Alt + X symbol shortcut 1F59D + Alt + X
Once in a document you can copy it to AutoCorrect and make your own shortcut.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Insert | Symbols | Symbol and look for the BLACK Right POINTING BACKHAND INDEX symbol.
Windows
In Windows there are several shortcuts to enter the BLACK Right POINTING BACKHAND INDEX ? character into any program, but they use a numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.
Alt + 128413
Windows Character Map
The Windows Character Map accessory in all Windows releases
Character Map has a search feature, something missing from the Insert | Symbol in Office.
MacOS and Office for Mac inserting characters
On a Mac, the BLACK Right POINTING BACKHAND INDEX ? symbol does NOT appear in the Character Viewer. That might change by the time you read this.
- Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer.
- Search for “INDEX “ and the Viewer will find the symbols containing that word.
- At the moment, only the “Black Right Pointing index” shows not the ‘Backhand’ variation.
Despite the name Character Viewer, the Apple system tool will also insert characters into any program, including Office for Mac.
More right pointing hand symbols in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Right Pointing Hand ☞ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Left Right arrow ↔ in Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Right arrow → symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
