How to cancel these Writer keyboard shortcuts icons?

Writer keyboard shortcuts

  • I defined that the keyboard shortcut
    ALT+1
    Colors a table cell in yellow.
    And so on
    For coloring table cells in 10 different colors,
    10 different keyboard shortcuts.
  • Every time I use one of the keyboard shortcuts I defined
    The table cell is colored with the color I defined,
    But, inside the table there is also an emoji, some simple symbol…:
    Heart, star, smiley, card symbols…
  • Screenshot:
    https://prnt.sc/9Aeu-5RdgXem
  • Why?
  • How to cancel these icons?

Screenshots are almost useless to characterise bad behaviour, all the more when View>Formatting Marks are not enabled (it would give some hint about the formatting).

Edit your question (be kind to contributors, sparing them the pain of going through a wealth of comments to build a synthesis of the question) to add minimum technical information: OS name, LO version and perhaps save format.

What is your shortcut? A link to a built-in command, a character or paragraph style application or a trigger for user macros? Attach your file for analysis.

Characters don’t appear per spontaneous generation. They have been added by some explicit mechanism (by a user macro?)

The best and most reliable method to apply customisation to document elements is with styles. You can then attach a shortcut to frequently used styles. Don’t do this with macros. Keep them for really complex and unusual tasks.

I add that macros frequently apply direct formatting which will always play some nasty trick on your back.

Alt+[Numpad] are hard coded into a fundamental layer of Windows since long ago. They cannot be changed unless Microsoft make the changes.

I agree it is hugely annoying but it is just one of the costs of using Windows.

External link to similar question windows - Turn off one-digit Alt codes - Super User

Wikipedia (history) touches on it Alt code - Wikipedia

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