Originally Posted By: Jackie
All right [off-topic e](sorry) -- can anyone tell me why, when I try the Alt + numbers sequence, they kick me off this screen to my home page? And stranger still is that not all of them do it; just most. A few of them give me the characters I want.


OK, whatcha gotta do is make sure you're in NUM LOCK then hold down the ALT key during the entire procedure. Enter the sequence (with the ALT key held down), e.g., 0222. Don't forget the leading zero.