Typing favorite characters.

I chose a pointing hand as a favorite character in character viewer. Now how do I type it? I searched on the Keyboard Viewer using all the modifier keys and it is not there.

You won't see it added to Keyboard Viewer. Keyboard Viewer displays the character set established by the current active keyboard layout. Adding a character to Keyboard Viewer's favorites will not alter the keyboard layout (if it did, mass confusion would probably result).
Instead, with the text document open and active and the insertion point placed where you want the character to appear, open Keyboard Viewer and go to the Favorites section. Then double-click the character you want, and it will be entered into your text document at the point the insertion point was left.
As an alternate means, you can drag the character out of the Keyboard Viewer window and drop it onto the Desktop; a text clipping file will be created, containing just that character and also named just that character. Then, when you want to use it in something you are typing, just drag the text clipping into the document's window and let go - that character will be placed where the insertion point is blinking.

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Product: HP ProBook 4530s
O/S: Windows 7, 2009, SP1, 32 bit
Error message - nope, no error message, just frustrating!
Any changes - nope, still stock
Okay, here's what happens... typing the characters "oun" in any word in any program is kicking me out of what I was doing to some other command window, as if the combination of the letters O U N is acting like some kind of shortcut command.
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In MS Outlook, same thing. If I type any word with "oun" in it, like "around" "found" etc... it immediately jumps me out of the document, spreadsheet, presentation, or email, and brings up the "Save As" window.
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Rev. Joel T. of Watkinsville, GA
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Rev. Joel T of Watkinsville, GA

Well, thanks for the suggestion. I have tried what you suggested. I used Control Panel to uninstall HP Power Management, then downloaded and installed the version behind your link. But... it still does it. I thought is was only happening in MS Office products, where any word with the characters "oun" will bring up the "Save As" window. But, even, here, in IE, if I type a word like counted or found, up pops a weird window on the bottom third of the screed that shows me HTML or CSS tabs, and let me choose style or document views... I never realized how many words have the characters o u n in succession in them until I hit this wall. I have also learned that if I type them slow enough, I am not kicked out... I'd REALLY love to know what program is the root of this redirect and just uninstall or remove it. But it appears that HP Power Management is not the solution, unless by manually uninstall, you could point me to the files I need to manually delete that Control Panel uninstall did not grab.
With hope...
Rev. Joel T.
Watkinsville, GA
Thanks,
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