SYNTAX, FORMAT "PLUS OR MINUS"

[Guest]

How does one type "plus" or "minus" so that it ends up in the same SPACE?

NOT... + -

NOT... - +

NOT... +/-

You know what I mean ...THE 'PLUS' DIRECTLY OVER THE 'MINUS'...WITH THE
'MINUS' LOWERED DOWN...sort of like an "underscored plus"????

Please advise.

Thanks,

FLKulchar

 

[alanglloyd]

How does one type "plus" or "minus" so that it ends up in the same SPACE?

NOT... + -

NOT... - +

NOT... +/-

You know what I mean ...THE 'PLUS' DIRECTLY OVER THE 'MINUS'...WITH THE
'MINUS' LOWERED DOWN...sort of like an "underscored plus"????

Please advise.

Thanks,

FLKulchar

Press Alt, NumPad 0, NumPad 1, Numpad 7, Numpad 7, release Alt.

That's in Arial with english (western europe) charset.

Alan Lloyd

 

[Tim Slattery]

How does one type "plus" or "minus" so that it ends up in the same SPACE?

NOT... + -

NOT... - +

NOT... +/-

You know what I mean ...THE 'PLUS' DIRECTLY OVER THE 'MINUS'...WITH THE
'MINUS' LOWERED DOWN...sort of like an "underscored plus"????

Yes, I know what you mean. If you're using Word, use the
Insert|Symbols command, and look through the table. It's in there.

Hmm...the Insert|Symbols box says that the keyboard code for this
symbol is Alt+0177. Seems to work! ±

 

[Ayush]

Click STart - Run
Type charmap
Click OK
Choose Arial font (Or Times new roman etc..)
Now you have lots of choices, the shortcut is listed in the status bar.
Example :
The shortcut for what you want is :
Alt 0177 (On NumPad)
You will see the character when Alt key is released. This method will work
on many text editors (e.g. Notepad) but not all.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How does one type "plus" or "minus" so that it ends up in the same
SPACE?

NOT... + -

NOT... - +

NOT... +/-

You know what I mean ...THE 'PLUS' DIRECTLY OVER THE 'MINUS'...WITH
THE 'MINUS' LOWERED DOWN...sort of like an "underscored plus"????

You mean like this: ±?

The issue is not how to type to characters so they end up in the same space,
but how to type the single character ±. It's not two characters, but one,
which happens to look like it's made up of two characters.

There is more than one way to do this, but I use a little freeware
background program called AllChars. This lets me (in all applications, not
just OE) type many common special characters (many of these are used in
other languages) by pressing the ctrl key followed by a two character
mnemonic combination.

Those mnemonic combinations are often what you might think of as the
constituent characters. For example, for ±, the two characters are + and -.
For ñ they are ~ and n. For ç it's c and , For ü it's u and "