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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"etpconscious" wrote in message ...
i was working a formula in excel and i mistakenly hit a key which caused a
spade ( a la diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades) to appear. Can someone tell me
what this represents and how i managed to makee this sign appear.