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Old 01-05-04, 10:28 AM
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Question Typing special chars without numeric keypad?

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???
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