Some computer usage tips.

[pierre smith]

My son is a graphic arts graduate and gives me tidbits from time to time.

I wondered how I could get degrees Fahrenheit shown as the little circle, like this 90?. Also the little thingy on some 'e's...like this... "pat?." And then the approx. sign... ?, like this one. Turns out that we have a "Character map" feature that has all these and many more. It's accessed by:

Start/programs/accessories/system tools/character map. You then select the "thingy" you want and copy it. When you reach the point in your post where you want that said 'thingy', you simply paste. voila!!

Comp 101,

[Danny7]

Originally Posted by pierre smith

My son is a graphic arts graduate and gives me tidbits from time to time.

I wondered how I could get degrees Fahrenheit shown as the little circle, like this 90?. Also the little thingy on some 'e's...like this... "pat?." And then the approx. sign... ?, like this one. Turns out that we have a "Character map" feature that has all these and many more. It's accessed by:

Start/programs/accessories/system tools/character map. You then select the "thingy" you want and copy it. When you reach the point in your post where you want that said 'thingy', you simply paste. voila!!

Comp 101,

degrees?˚? for a mac you can go to edit file, drop down to "special characters", then explore all sorts of stuff

[DeltaRomeo]

Hold down the ALT key and type in 0176 on the numeric keypad. When you release the Alt key a ? will appear on the screen where your cursor was.

If you are looking for the ? symbol, it's 0177.

[AltonD]

Originally Posted by DeltaRomeo

Hold down the ALT key and type in 0176 on the numeric keypad. When you release the Alt key a ? will appear on the screen.

If you are looking for the ? symbol, it's 0177.

In the bottom right of the character map program, it will give you the code to do what DR is showing you. It will save you some time if you know the ASCII code.

[PaigeHoffart]

Or,

Save a keystroke and type Alt-248...?

Paige

[hendrik]

Or save yet another keystroke with Unix: compose-oo → °, compose-+- → ±, ...

[islandmonkey]

Originally Posted by DeltaRomeo

Hold down the ALT key and type in 0176 on the numeric keypad. When you release the Alt key a ? will appear on the screen where your cursor was.

If you are looking for the ? symbol, it's 0177.

I knew that!


I am a sad geek.

[pierre smith]

Originally Posted by DeltaRomeo

Hold down the ALT key and type in 0176 on the numeric keypad. When you release the Alt key a ? will appear on the screen where your cursor was.

If you are looking for the ? symbol, it's 0177.

I tried your method, DR...no joy...doesn't work and I have Windows XP, Media Center edition.

Thanks anyway,

[C-FAH Q]

on a mac......alt k.
Does not get shorter than that.

[sjarrell]

Originally Posted by pierre smith

I tried your method, DR...no joy...doesn't work and I have Windows XP, Media Center edition.

Thanks anyway,

Pierre - You must use the numeric keyboard on the right side of the keyboard, not the numbers on the top of the keyboard. On a laptop you must enable your numeric keyboard (normally the letters m, j, k, l, u, i, o, 7, 8, 9) by enabling your NumLk function (on my laptop this is done by holding down the Fn key and pressing the NumLk key once, but this varies from laptop to laptop.)

If you do this be sure to toggle your NumLk function back off by using the same keystrokes as you used to turn it on or you're going to find yourself typing some pretty strange things!

Done properly this will work on all Windows based computers as far as I know and it's a handy shortcut. As you said though the Charmap program is very useful if you can't get this to work, you want to use unusual symbols, or you simply want to look the codes up for common symbols like degrees, trademark, or copyright.

Best,