typing letters of the alphabet with foreign diacritical marks

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Jan 15th, 2002, 08:41 AM

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Betty

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I found the euro symbol on Microsoft Word under Insert - Symbols. Choose "normal text" for font and "currency symbols" for subset. The euro symbol is near the bottom. Now, let's see if it will transfer to here if I copy and paste. This hotel costs 52? per night. Seems to work.

Jan 15th, 2002, 08:43 AM

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Betty

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Darn! It looked fine until I hit the post button.

Jan 16th, 2002, 03:27 AM

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Pauline

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Sally, On my iMac shift alt 2 = ? now that looks fine from here. Lets see what happens when I hit the post button

Jan 16th, 2002, 03:30 AM

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Pauline

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Doesn't travel well at all.

Jan 16th, 2002, 07:13 PM

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Betty

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Trying again using Alt 0128. This hotel costs 52? per night. I'd bet this doesn't come through either.

Jan 16th, 2002, 10:54 PM

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Sue

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Thanks, Pauline! It's cool. (and so are Macs)

Jan 16th, 2002, 11:03 PM

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Sue

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For all you PC people, there is a very good chart for key combos for accents at http://www.wordinfo.com/how_to/accww7.htm I found it for a friend who I'm sure couldn't cope with Alt+ numbers. For example, to type ñ (that's n with tilde, in case it doesn't come across), you hold down the Control + Shift keys, press the tilde key, release all and type n. (It is really easier than it sounds and a lot easier than all those Alt+numbers.) I want to try a Euro. ? It worked! But I guess it won't fly.

Jan 17th, 2002, 06:27 PM

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Judi

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Am I glad I use a Mac. Two Macs! Here's what you do: Go to the Apple menu. Then go to Keyboard. There you will find many, many languages to choose from. Check the ones you want to use. I keep English and Spanish on my toolbar. When I can't remember which key gives me a certain diacritical mark, I just use the Key Caps in the Apple menu. What's with all these commands??? People, Macs rule!

Jan 18th, 2002, 10:07 AM

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Erin

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I didn't see this one... £ = press ALT, then 156 on the keypad

Jan 18th, 2002, 10:11 AM

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Erin-I just pressed 156 and Alt and got the lb sign, thanks-that is so cool~

Jan 18th, 2002, 11:11 AM

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mmm

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People are already do diacritical on this board. Do we really need to teach them how to type that way?

Jan 19th, 2002, 11:29 AM

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notworkingatalleuro

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Can't make the symbol appear on mail,word,posts,etc. although i tried the alt 0128 and downloaded the symbol from Microsoft website.Any suggestions? Thank you

Aug 14th, 2002, 05:05 PM

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Rex

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An important new "discovery" has been posted on the "euro" thread. May be useful in various situations when non-standard characters - - like € - - are needed in your post. See http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/

Oct 4th, 2002, 07:47 AM

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xxx

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Still a very useful old thread, starting with Bob Brown's post of November 23 and after that.

Oct 9th, 2002, 11:16 AM

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Rex

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Another one of the accursed "irretrievable" threads, and it doesn't even fall into the "hole" period - - but it previously WAS there (August 14 - - in the Jul 22-Aug 19 hole).