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Cheat Sheet for Non-Standard Characters
Is there a way to oprint out a cheat sheet for the short cuts creating
non-standard characters? My agency uses these quite a bit and it is a little hard to constantly remember the Alt-### code for each one. Thanks -- JOHN C. HARRIS; MPA |
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Cheat Sheet for Non-Standard Characters
I have a lot of these for both standard and "symbol" fonts, but only for
characters 0-255. You could omit the standard keyboard characters, however, and add to the range. The way I created mine was as follows: 1. Create a column with 16 columns and 32 rows. 2. In the odd-numbered columns, enter the numbers 0 to 255 (0-31 in column 1, 32-63 in column 3, and so on). 3. In the even-numbered columns, press Alt+the corresponding number to insert the character. You'll quickly figure out you can omit the first two columns, since character 0-31 are all control characters; the first "real" character is 32 (space). 4. Once you have created this table, you can change the font in the even-numbered columns and get a chart for a different font; this is especially handy for symbol fonts. FWIW, I rarely use these charts any more except when I want to see how the character actually looks in print. Instead, I usually use the Symbol dialog or a built-in or custom keyboard shortcut; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JC HARRIS" wrote in message ... Is there a way to oprint out a cheat sheet for the short cuts creating non-standard characters? My agency uses these quite a bit and it is a little hard to constantly remember the Alt-### code for each one. Thanks -- JOHN C. HARRIS; MPA |
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Cheat Sheet for Non-Standard Characters
Alternatively there are charts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ for
unicode-defined characters. They are not font-specific and won't help with fonts such as wingdings but you may find them helpful depending on what characters you are using. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I have a lot of these for both standard and "symbol" fonts, but only for characters 0-255. You could omit the standard keyboard characters, however, and add to the range. The way I created mine was as follows: 1. Create a column with 16 columns and 32 rows. 2. In the odd-numbered columns, enter the numbers 0 to 255 (0-31 in column 1, 32-63 in column 3, and so on). 3. In the even-numbered columns, press Alt+the corresponding number to insert the character. You'll quickly figure out you can omit the first two columns, since character 0-31 are all control characters; the first "real" character is 32 (space). 4. Once you have created this table, you can change the font in the even-numbered columns and get a chart for a different font; this is especially handy for symbol fonts. FWIW, I rarely use these charts any more except when I want to see how the character actually looks in print. Instead, I usually use the Symbol dialog or a built-in or custom keyboard shortcut; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JC HARRIS" wrote in message ... Is there a way to oprint out a cheat sheet for the short cuts creating non-standard characters? My agency uses these quite a bit and it is a little hard to constantly remember the Alt-### code for each one. Thanks -- JOHN C. HARRIS; MPA |
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