Plus or minus character ...Its ASCII value

[Srinivasulu B]

I need to type plus or minus character ("+" over "-") in preparing an
Engineering document for indicating tolerances.
What is the ASCII Value for this character.
If this is not available in regular fonts...which font I should use to get
thus character.
seena

 

[Eduardo]

Hi,
ALT + 43 will give +
ALT + 45 will print -

If this helps please click yes thanks

 

[Gord Dibben]

Alt + 0177 in Arial font


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[DB.]

I need to type plus or minus character ("+" over "-") in preparing an
Engineering document for indicating tolerances.
What is the ASCII Value for this character.
If this is not available in regular fonts...which font I should use to
get thus character.
seena

You'll probably get better replies than this - but it might help:
I'd expect you might need to use Character map - I have an icon for
it on my Desktop.

Help and Support Centre tells us this:

Using Character Map
You can use Character Map to copy and paste special characters into your
documents, such as the trademark symbol, special mathematical
characters, or a character from the character set of another language.

Open Character Map.

Notes

a.. To open Character Map, click Start, point to All Programs, point
to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Character Map.
b.. For information about using Character Map, click Help in Character
Map.
c.. For more information, click Related Topics.

HTH.

 

[Bernard Liengme]

Maybe we should add: must type numbers from numeric pad - a chore with a
laptop.
Bernard

 

[Gord Dibben]

Thanks Bernard

Most times I add the NumPad caveat.

Fast fingers this time<g>


Gord

 

[JLatham]

A couple of hopefully helpful hints: Once you've gotten the character into
one cell, you can then copy it to the clipboard to paste in other places if
you need to do this a lot.

While the method that Gord (and Bernard) would be the preferred one, you can
get a pretty good simulation of the symbol by underlining the + symbol:
while typing, just before entering the + key, hit [Ctrl]+ to begin
underlining, type the + and then [Ctrl]+ again to turn off underlining.
Of course this is pretty much useless if the entire text in the cell is to be
underlined. But there's little or no ambiguity if you use [ALT][0][1][7][7]
(from the number pad <g>).