Is there a quick way to bring up the Unicode Character box rather than going the Start- Programs- Accessories- Character Map-- route? Or maybe a way to assign an “Alt + some key” command so I don’t have to go fishing everytime I need an “é”?
Thänks
You can create a hot-key combination to bring up any program you want. Right-click the Start button, and choose Open. Navigate to the shortcut you want to change, right-click it and choose Properties. Under the Shortcut tab is a setting for “Shortcut key”.
In Word, alt+s brings up a symbol window, but it’s a bit cumbersome to operate. A very few Greek symbols can be had by pressing alt+a, alt+b, alt+u, etc.
In what application does Alt-S bring up a symbol window?
Used to be able to generate some of those characters by holding the tab key and typing the ASCII code. Depends on the font, though.
Ack! Not tab, alt!
In Word. You actually get your choice of fonts, but some font sets have more special characters than others.
Actually, you can still use a method similar to this in (I believe) any Windoze app. The Character Map will show you, in the bottom right, what the number sequence is for the symbol you want; don’t believe it has anything to do with ASCII anymore. The numbers seems to be standard across the common TTF’s.
Inky-, if you’ve got the brain space for it you can just memorize “0233” for your é. Just remember: hold Alt, type the number on the keypad, release Alt.
- Dave
I was unable to bring up the symbol window using Alt-S in Word 97.
Here’s a couple tables of the extended character set. It is referred to as ANSI by the first link, and extended ASCII by the second.
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/3dkbd/ansitable.html
http://www.delanet.com/~pparish/ascii.htm
I just noticed that the first table hasn’t been updated since the introduction of the Euro(€) symbol, and lists the code as “unused”.
I explained this extensively here.
I am a doofus. I should have said Alt+I, followed by “S”.