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FAX ℻ symbol in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

13 November 2022

Type the Facsimile sign or Fax symbol ℻ into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. Both in Office for Windows and Office for Mac.

FAX ℻ symbol is a single character with the letters FAX, normally used to prefix a telephone number in a letter heading or footer.

For younger readers: a Fax machine was a 20^th Century device for sending pages (black ink only) over telephone lines. It was a popular form of communication in the final decades of the dark ages before the Internet arrived.

There’s also a Fax emoji📠 (Unicode 1F4E0) See the old Alt + X trick for Word and Outlook

FAX ℻ symbol is complemented by the Telephone ℡ symbol,

How FAX ℻ looks in different fonts

FAX ℻ codes

These are the important code numbers or values you’ll need to enter the FAX or ℻

Decimal: 8507 Hex: 213B

Web: ℻ ℻ or ℻

(web codes aren’t used in Microsoft Office, we’ve included them for the sake of completeness.)

Word and Outlook

The FAX ℻ sign does NOT have an inbuilt shortcut in Word.

Use the standard Word Alt + X symbol shortcut 213B + 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 FAX symbol.

Windows

In Windows there are several shortcuts to enter the FAX ℻ character into any program, but they use a numeric keypad, not the number row above the letters.

Alt + 8507

Windows 11/10 Emoji Panel

The Windows 11/10 Emoji Panel does not have the ℻ character, at least not that we can see. The Emoji Panel doesn’t have a search function for symbols!

See Emoji Panel is part of Windows that totally sucks

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, to enter the FAX ℻ symbol:

Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer.
Search for “ Facsmilie“ and the Viewer should find the symbol you need.

Despite the name Character Viewer, the Apple system tool will also insert characters into any program, including Office for Mac.

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