you probably have something written webdings font or something simila
to tha

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davesexce

In consecutive cells enter =CHAR(167) thru CHAR(17)
Format these cells with the Symbol font to see the card types

Hello:

There are lots of these kinds of symbols floating around. What they
kinds depends on the fonts you have installed. As an example I have
WP IconicSymbolsA installed. If I choose that as the font
and type ALt-0205 (on the keypad, not keyboard) the spade will appear.

To see what you have installed use the windows utility: charmap.exe

It should be in windows/system32 directory. Here is a link describing
it:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q195041/  

(look towards the bottom of the page)

Pieter Vandenberg

Can't imagine how you could do it with one or two keys.
If you were in the Symbol font  AND you entered  Alt+0169
you would get a spade symbol.
   http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/fonts.htm
   http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/symbols.htm

With Excel 2002 and up you can use the   Insert menu , then Symbol ...,
then select font and character -- also not an inadvertent simply key
combination thing.

If you have turned on some accessibility options there might be other
ways.  Or maybe you have a special keyboard layout for playing
board games (solitaire)  <grin>.

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