Hi Dave,
I have never encountered that problem. Are you sure that you are not
hitting the wrong keys?
Try running the macro below and see if it produces the following in
the first and second columns of the table that it creates:
Alt + Numeric Keypad - Normal Font
033 - !
034 - "
035 - #
036 - $
037 - %
038 - &
039 - '
040 - (
041 - )
042 - *
043 - +
044 - ,
045 - -
046 - .
047 - /
048 - 0
049 - 1
050 - 2
051 - 3
052 - 4
053 - 5
054 - 6
055 - 7
056 - 8
057 - 9
058 - :
059 - ;
060 - <
061 - =
062 - >
063 - ?
064 - @
065 - A
066 - B
067 - C
068 - D
069 - E
070 - F
071 - G
072 - H
073 - I
074 - J
075 - K
076 - L
077 - M
078 - N
079 - O
080 - P
081 - Q
082 - R
083 - S
084 - T
085 - U
086 - V
087 - W
088 - X
089 - Y
090 - Z
091 - [
092 - \
093 - ]
094 - ^
095 - _
096 - `
097 - a
098 - b
099 - c
0100 - d
0101 - e
0102 - f
0103 - g
0104 - h
0105 - i
0106 - j
0107 - k
0108 - l
0109 - m
0110 - n
0111 - o
0112 - p
0113 - q
0114 - r
0115 - s
0116 - t
0117 - u
0118 - v
0119 - w
0120 - x
0121 - y
0122 - z
0123 - {
0124 - |
0125 - }
0126 - ~
0127 -
0128 - €
0129 -
0130 - ‚
0131 - ƒ
0132 - „
0133 - …
0134 - †
0135 - ‡
0136 - ˆ
0137 - ‰
0138 - Š
0139 - ‹
0140 - Œ
0141 -
0142 - Ž
0143 -
0144 -
0145 - ‘
0146 - ’
0147 - “
0148 - ”
0149 - •
0150 - –
0151 - —
0152 - ˜
0153 - ™
0154 - š
0155 - ›
0156 - œ
0157 -
0158 - ž
0159 - Ÿ
0160 -
0161 - ¡
0162 - ¢
0163 - £
0164 - ¤
0165 - ¥
0166 - ¦
0167 - §
0168 - ¨
0169 - ©
0170 - ª
0171 - «
0172 - ¬
0173 -
0174 - ®
0175 - ¯
0176 - °
0177 - ±
0178 - ²
0179 - ³
0180 - ´
0181 - µ
0182 - ¶
0183 - ·
0184 - ¸
0185 - ¹
0186 - º
0187 - »
0188 - ¼
0189 - ½
0190 - ¾
0191 - ¿
0192 - À
0193 - Á
0194 - Â
0195 - Ã
0196 - Ä
0197 - Å
0198 - Æ
0199 - Ç
0200 - È
0201 - É
0202 - Ê
0203 - Ë
0204 - Ì
0205 - Í
0206 - Î
0207 - Ï
0208 - Ð
0209 - Ñ
0210 - Ò
0211 - Ó
0212 - Ô
0213 - Õ
0214 - Ö
0215 - ×
0216 - Ø
0217 - Ù
0218 - Ú
0219 - Û
0220 - Ü
0221 - Ý
0222 - Þ
0223 - ß
0224 - à
0225 - á
0226 - â
0227 - ã
0228 - ä
0229 - å
0230 - æ
0231 - ç
0232 - è
0233 - é
0234 - ê
0235 - ë
0236 - ì
0237 - í
0238 - î
0239 - ï
0240 - ð
0241 - ñ
0242 - ò
0243 - ó
0244 - ô
0245 - õ
0246 - ö
0247 - ÷
0248 - ø
0249 - ù
0250 - ú
0251 - û
0252 - ü
0253 - ý
0254 - þ
0255 - ÿ
' 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
Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
Dave Neve said:
Hi
I've noticed recently doing VBA that my ascii characters do not
correspond to their given codes.
I click on the 'special characters' entry in the menu bar of Word
and note
down the corresponding ascii number but when I type out alt+number, I
often
get sth else.
I have to say that I work on a multi language computer with
keyboards in various languages and this may be the cause of the
problem as some ascii characters are lang setting sensitive.
But what can I do to get the characters to answer to their codes as
displayed in Word?
Thanks in advance
