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Default Special characters on laptop without numeric keypad

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:33:11 -0700 from LurfysMa
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:40:56 -0400, Stan Brown
wrote:
(1) In Microsoft Word, use the hex (not decimal) codes and then press
Alt-X afterward.


I'm not sure what you mean. The degree character is Ascii 176 or Hex
"B0". I tried typing "B" then "0" then Alt-X. Didn't work.


"Didn't work" doesn't give us much to go on. What happened?

(I just tried it, and it works fine for me. Word 2003 -- maybe this
feature isn't in Word 2000?)

Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000


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