Alt Plus codes

[Guest]

Can someone tell me a site where I could download all the ALT Plus numeric
keys codes
ie. ALT +0169 = ©
ALT + 0163 = £
ALT + 0176 = °
etc.........

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Run the following macro

' Macro created 12-08-98 by Doug Robbins to list symbols that can be
inserted via Alt+keypad

'

ActiveDocument.Tables.Add Range:=Selection.Range, NumRows:=1,
NumColumns:=3

Selection.TypeText Text:="Alt + Numeric Keypad"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Selection.TypeText Text:="Normal Font"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Selection.TypeText Text:="Symbol Font"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Symbol = 33

While Symbol < 256

Selection.TypeText Text:="0" & LTrim$(Str$(Symbol))

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

With Selection

.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol, Font:="Normal",
Unicode:=False

End With

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

With Selection

.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol, Font:="Symbol",
Unicode:=False

End With

Symbol = Symbol + 1

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Wend


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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Guest]

Doug,
Thanks for your reply but I have no idea re macros and would not have a clue
on how to do as you suggest.
I have an idea that I came across the site with these codes but after doing
a Google I couldn't find it again.searc

 

[Stefan Blom]

For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[Tony Jollans]

You can't easily download them all and, depending on your setup, many of
them may not display on your computer - or may not display in all fonts.

You can use Alt + any number which is the decimal equivalent of a unicode
code point. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/ for a complete listing of all
standard ones but note that the charts there give code points in hexadecimal
so you will need to convert them to decimal to use with Alt and the numeric
keypad (if you have a recent version of Word you can type the hex value and
then press Alt+X to convert it to a character as an alternative method of
input). Note that certain code points are reserved for private use and do
not have fixed characters - the various symbols in the Symbol, Wingdings,
etc. fonts fall into this category. Although I suspect it won't concern you,
note also that some (Far East) characters require two code points - so
called surrogate pairs.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Can someone tell me a site where I could download all the ALT Plus numeric
keys codes
ie. ALT +0169 = ©
ALT + 0163 = £
ALT + 0176 = °
etc.........

Besides what Doug and Tony told you, learn to use the Insert > Symbol
dialog, which lets you browse through the characters in various fonts
and tells you what the codes and shortcut keys are. Read
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm for
background and illustrations.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

Tony,
Thanks for your help.
It's all confusing to me.
I definitely came across a list of ALT + 4 numeric key numbers somewhere.
I'm not that worried about them as the most common one I use are:
Bake at 145º, Latitude -23º 46"
Instead of trying to remember the ALT numbers I have used the Word ' Auto
correct ' option and type (d) to print º the degree symbol
and (lb) for £ symbol
I visited the site and looked at the PDF file but that too, was confusing to
me.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There are built-in keyboard shortcuts for most of the most-used special
characters. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks Suzan'
I'll have a look at the site

There are built-in keyboard shortcuts for most of the most-used special
characters. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks Jay,
I'll look at the site.
I use Imperial measure that requires fraction of an inch, ie. 14' 7 and 11/64"
The only way I have found out how to print all fractions is to create them
using this method:
1. Type the fraction ie. 5/16
2. Highlight the numerator
3. Press Ctrl+Shift+ =, this superscripts the numerator
4. Highlight the denominator
5. Press Ctrl + =, this subscripts the denominator
6. To return to normal CTRL + Spacebar
I then use Auto correct and type (11/64) for 11 64ths.
This will only work in Word, or at least I think so, In Excel even if I
format the cells as "General " it thinks it is a date'
It won't work in this reply either.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CreateFraction.htm for various
options.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Suzanne,
I cannot understand " Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all
follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit." as I posted this reply in
Word General newsgroup.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's part of my standard signature. Did you read my actual reply? I will
repeat it here:

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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