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Gladly the cross-eyed bear? 'Deed and indeed; nicely caught!
Edit: whoa, a better catch than I realized--that was supposed to be 2¢, not 2+. [smacking self e] My keyboard does not have a symbol for cents. Lucky you.
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Try holding down your Alt button then hitting 155 (1 then 5 then 5 again) on your keypad over to your right. I hope that's where your keypad is; just don't use the numbers in the row across the top of your keyboard.
There're all kinds of cool things in there! 130 = é; 167 = º; 171 = ½. Experiment; backspace if you want to get rid of something.
It should work in e-mail, too, if you want to practice without coming here. Any time I'm practicing something or doing something I'm not too sure of, I set up an e-mail to myself so that if I accidentally hit Send I won't be mortified that somebody else is reading my foolishness.
And I owe my knowledge of this to tsuwm; thank you again, sir.
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OK this sounds good.
Where do I do this, I mean, what is on the screen as I do
this? Post a reply on this site or open to something else.
I tried here in this post-window and nothing happens.
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Ok I did not read all your post. I tried in an email
and see what you mean. Thanks so very much.
I will experiment and see what all I can come up with.
The ¢ and the º are going to be very helpful. I am
very appreciative.
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The interested bystander should note that Jackie's technique works only on Windows OS. Macs have a whole nother way of doing it.
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I finally got it to work. I've only been on computer
for 3-4 years, and am learning new things all the time.
I am very appreciative of the technique. I have Windows.
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The interested bystander should note that Jackie's technique works only on Windows OS. Macs have a whole nother way of doing it. and, you should understand, in any case this is quite a techie sort of shortcut. the user guide would tell you to use the character map accessory, to be found for Windows under Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map having got that far, just click on Character Map (using it once puts a temporary shortcut on your Start menu. the advanced student will want to learn how to make this temporary shortcut permanent. : )
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I cannot believe, I actually sort of understood that.
I was going to simply bypass what you said as being
too technical and over my head until I noticed the
"all programs" part. I remembered what that was. I have
never had anyone teaching me anything, just trying to pick
it up on my own as I go along. So I followed the
directions>from one to the other and found it. Thank you.
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Thanks Jackie and tsuwm...the 'alt numbers' didn't work on my computer (the numbers come up with different shotcuts), but I found the character map in menu. I did wonder how people inserted the ©. I always wrote ¼ ½ ¾ in full before.
And I have no idea what this symbol is but I love it ﮚ looks like a snake wearing a crown ♥
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Character Map !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good grief, what a lot of stuff my computer has! Most of it, I've never explored, usually out of terror: "System Restore"??? I feel certain that the instant I clicked on it it would destroy every single thing I have ever saved in my computer. Nuh-uh--I ain't touchin' it.
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