[AT] Degree symbol--know how?

[Larry D Goss]

There are a whole bunch of non-keyboard symbols available, John.  In the old 
days (DOS, etc) they were three numbers each because there was a maximum of 
256 characters in any one font.  I suspect that there are still a bunch of 
fonts that don't have the high-bit characters defined, so there may be some 
people for which that particular alt-code doesn't print.  What really got to 
be fun was when the high-bit code for display on the computer screen was 
different from the high-bit code defined by the printer driver.  That sort 
of discrepancy could drive you nuts when a document looks OK on the screen 
and then comes out completely different on a hard copy.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Wilkens" <jwilkens at eoni.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:21 PM
Subject: [AT] Degree symbol--know how?


In case I'm not the only computer NON-genius in
the crowd I thought you might like to know how to
type a degree symbol like I just learned....so
you don't have to type out the word
"degree."   (My keyboard does not have a degree
key).   Just set your keyboard to "Num
Lock,"  place your cursor where you want the
degree symbol, and hold down the "Alt" key while
you type +0176 on the numeric keyboard (clusters
of numbers on the far right of the
keyboard)....IE:   32°    It works for me!   John W.

                    In the wide-open spaces of NE Oregon




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