Do you know how to make the cents sign?

Member Guts over on Net Cooking Talk posted the following, which got others to share links on how to do all kinds of kewl stuff with the one key on the keyboard I very rarely use. The ALT key. I mainly use it with the Ctrl & Delete Keys for Ctrl ALT Delete, otherwise my ALT key is probably the least used key on my keyboard.


Then one of the links showed how to make the cents sign, which could be very handy to me.
ALT + 0162 = ¢
Hold the ALT key down and hit the 0 1 6 2 ON THE NUMERIC KEYPAD. When you let up on the ALT key the cents sign will appear. Kewl ehh.

Here are more links to even expand the ALT key further. So many possibilities.

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html#currency

http://www.asciitable.com/

And if that is not enough for you, here you can create your own:
http://readerszone.com/tips/how-to-create-special-characters-in-windows-xp.html
Thanks to Andy (Adillo303) and Chowderman for the links. And to Guts for bringing this up.

Original thread here:
http://www.netcookingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=219650#post219650

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cool! lol

I usually just use the Character Map (charmap.exe) application to find the character and then cut and paste it as needed. Character Map will also tell you what the ALT code is.

ALT + I 8 1 2 =

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Learn something every day, thanks PB and Mosi, I didn't know either one of those.

PBinWA said:

I usually just use the Character Map (charmap.exe) application to find the character and then cut and paste it as needed.

Click to expand...

That's what I do. It's a darned sight easier than trying to remember all that other stuff.

like
[FONT=&quot](•)(•) [/FONT]


( alt"249") (alt"249")

this is a good link for codes and descriptions.

http://www.italysoft.com/utility/converters/ascii-table.php

I use to use them for bat files for menus in the old doss days.

tom