Special characters on keyboard

Aiadi

Have you tried

http://sourceforge.net/projects/allchars/files/current%20stable%20v4/v4.0.321/AllChars-4.0.321.zip/download

It is all you need.

Ms_Chocaholic

⅝ :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PS You're under-estimating the amount of time I spend on here

doverswot

lindabea wrote: »

Thank you - I thought there was something missing in your first reply. However, holding alt and typing 171 is still not working on my PC. Is there something I need to do to perhaps activate the alt key?

Only works using the numeric pad with num lock on.

As also posted earlier, running charmap will show you all the chracters for each font, together with the numeric code for using them

lindabea

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

⅝ :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PS You're under-estimating the amount of time I spend on here

Haha - that's very funny :A- but how much do you charge for your time to be on beconing call? But seriously, I really would like to learn how to do it for myself

lindabea

doverswot wrote: »

Only works using the numeric pad with num lock on.

As also posted earlier, running charmap will show you all the chracters for each font, together with the numeric code for using them

Thank you doverswot. That explains my problem. I don't have a numeric pad on my laptop - I just have the std qwerty keyboard. NOw that I have a better understanding of the problem and how to solve it, I'll use my desktop instead which has a numeric pad on its keyboard.

doverswot

lindabea wrote: »

Thank you doverswot. That explains my problem. I don't have a numeric pad on my laptop - I just have the std qwerty keyboard. NOw that I have a better understanding of the problem and how to solve it, I'll use my desktop instead which has a numeric pad on its keyboard.

You're welcome - one final suggestion, in OpenOffice you have SpecialCharacter under the insert menu.

lindabea

doverswot wrote: »

You're welcome - one final suggestion, in OpenOffice you have SpecialCharacter under the insert menu.

That's brilliant - thank you for pointing that out :j With that method, I can insert special characters using my laptop.

Thank you everyone for your all your help. I've learnt something new from this thread.

sharkie

if you are using a popper word processor what most people would do to represent 0.66666 is to type a superscript 2, a /, and a subscript 3

maths editors work a little different though

John_Gray

lindabea wrote: »

Thank you doverswot. That explains my problem. I don't have a numeric pad on my laptop - I just have the std qwerty keyboard.

Do you not have numbers on the lower part of the keys to the right of the centre of your keyboard, probably printed in blue, which you access by holding down the Fn key and pressing whatever letter key the number is printed on??

Example:

greyteam1959

Sorry if I an hijacking someones thread but as all the keyboard wizaeds are on here...........
Where can I find the euro symbol on my keyboard ??