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Lee C.
I believe they're called extended characters anyway. Perhaps they're called something else. Anyway, problem goes like this: Using Arial character map (Charmap.exe), I find I have options to use Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, and, I think, Greek characters. I think this means I loaded an extended character map during a Windows update. That may or may not have been a good idea. There are some characters that I do like to use occasionally though, e.g. ≠, and ≈ are useful in my e-mails sometimes.
However, I find that doing the copy and paste off of the charmap, is 1) slow and cumbersome, 2) adds in extra ''carriage returns''/[Enter] hits that I then have to remove, and 3) causes OE 6x to start typing in bold (I have ''text only'' selected for composition--it appears to not actually send in bold, but it's still disconcerting to have it change character during composition).
I'd really like to figure out some way to enter those in OE without going through all of that, but have so far been unsuccessful at hunting down a solution.
Quaeres then:
1). Is there another way to enter these sorts of characters besides the ''select and copy'' from the charmap.exe program? Perhaps something akin to the old trick of holding down the Alt key and typing in numbers on the keypad to add characters not on the keyboard?
2). Is there any way to add those characters to an OE e-mail that will be less cumbersome and/or at least not add in the extra [Enter] hits thus causing my new, copied character to appear to be in a separate paragraph all its own?
However, I find that doing the copy and paste off of the charmap, is 1) slow and cumbersome, 2) adds in extra ''carriage returns''/[Enter] hits that I then have to remove, and 3) causes OE 6x to start typing in bold (I have ''text only'' selected for composition--it appears to not actually send in bold, but it's still disconcerting to have it change character during composition).
I'd really like to figure out some way to enter those in OE without going through all of that, but have so far been unsuccessful at hunting down a solution.
Quaeres then:
1). Is there another way to enter these sorts of characters besides the ''select and copy'' from the charmap.exe program? Perhaps something akin to the old trick of holding down the Alt key and typing in numbers on the keypad to add characters not on the keyboard?
2). Is there any way to add those characters to an OE e-mail that will be less cumbersome and/or at least not add in the extra [Enter] hits thus causing my new, copied character to appear to be in a separate paragraph all its own?
