[access-uk] Re: Writing a minus sign in Word
- From: "Baldev Shinder" <bshinder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:36:55 +0100
Hi Catherine
Can you not press Insert 4 and press D 4 times until you get the divide
symbol and press enter on it.
HTH
Baldev Shinder
West Bromwich, West Midlands U.K.
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Catherine Turner
Sent: 19 October 2006 10:25
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Writing a minus sign in Word
Thanks Barry.
Now another question - I go into Insert and then Symbol, and JAWS doesn't
seem to be reading the list of symbols properly. I can get it to read a
certain amount but after cursoring down a few times in the list of symbols
it stops reading anything and sometimes just says nothing and sometimes says
edit. Does anyone else have this problem?
Also, in case I can't get JAWS to read properly somehow, does anyone know
what the hex code for division is? (There's an edit box in the insert
symbol dialog which says hex code, I assume if I type it in there and then
press insert it will work).
Catherine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Hill" <bbinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:56 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Writing a minus sign in Word
> Hi Catherine
>
> You are correct in everything, including your maths (smile). The dash is
> the same as a minus symbol and an x is the same as a multiplication
> symbol.
> It's odd that there isn't a keyboard symbol for division - You will have
> to
> find that as you say. Incidentally, when writing formulae in Excel, you
> actually use the * for multiplication and the /
> for division, but they don't look right on paper.
>
> Barry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Turner" <catherineturner2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Access-UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:24 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Writing a minus sign in Word
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If I need to write a minus sign in Word will it look right if I use what
> JAWS calls "dash" when you type it; and what it sometimes calls "en dash"
> when it reads it; which is typed by pressing the key to the right of zero
> on
> my laptop, but which I think sometimes would be shift and 6...
>
> For example I would type
> 2 - 1 = 1
>
> (In this e-mail JAWS has just read the above as "two dash one equals one".
> But in Word it reads it as "two en dash one equals one". What I want to
> know is does it look correct for the purpose of someone's Maths notes if I
> write what JAWS calls an end dash for a minus sign?
>
> Come to that (anticipating questions I'll no doubt have in the near
> future).
> what about times, can I do an x? I assume for division I would need to go
> into the insert symbol menu?
>
> Catherine
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