To type special characters on keyboards with separate numeric keypad is easy. Just hold down the ALT key, then (for example) 0169 on the numeric keypad, and hey presto:
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But try that using the regular number keys (at the top): nothing.
Put on NumLock: nothing.
Who cares? Well, laptops, such as the one I use at home, have no such pad, so the only way I've found to get them is laborious: go to Character Map, make sure I have the right font, and select and copy that character, then return to original doc and paste it in:
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Doable, but a pain. _Is_ there a way to do this with just a "normal" keyboard???