[bksvol-discuss] Re: Ascii codes for copyright sign and registered sign and how to find all ASCII codes on a Windows System

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:10:58 -0800 (PST)

on the mac option +G gives the copyright symbol and option+R gives the 
registered symbol. Also, they, and oothersymbols  can be found in the insert 
pull-down file, and it gives the keyboard keys for tha various symbols as well. 
smile

Cindy

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--- On Sun, 12/20/09, Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Ascii codes for copyright sign and registered 
> sign and how to find all ASCII codes on a Windows System
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 8:21 PM
> I wonder if there are similar fixes
> on a Mac?
> 
> Valerie
> 
> 
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Judy s. wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > The copyright symbol
> > © is alt-0169 (alt key zero one six nine)
> > 
> > The registered symbol
> > ® is alt-0174 (alt key zero one seven four)
> > 
> > Remember you must use the numeric keypad to type in
> the numbers,
> > or this doesn't work.
> > 
> > I don't know if a screen reader can interpret the
> following correctly so it is even usable if you're blind,
> but on a windows system you can reach a utility called the
> "Character Map" that is built into every Windows
> system.  It lists every ascii letter and symbol and its
> keyboard equivalent in a table, and you can even copy the
> symbols from this table into any program on a Windows
> system.
> > 
> > On a Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems you reach the
> Character
> > Map by clicking the Start button, then clicking
> Programs, then
> > clicking Accessories, and then clicking System Tools,
> then
> > clicking Character Map.
> > 
> > On a Vista system you reach the Character map by
> clicking the
> > Start button, then clicking All Programs, clicking
> Accessories,
> > clicking System Tools, and then clicking Character
> Map.
> > 
> > On a Windows 7 system you reach the Character map by
> clicking the
> > Start button and then in the search box, type
> Character Map, and
> > then, in the list of results, click Character Map.
> > 
> > Alternatively, I think on all windows system you can
> click on the
> > start menu, chose the run option and in the run dialog
> box type:
> > charmap.exe - but I'm not positive about this one.
> > 
> > Also, in Microsoft Word, it is under the "tools"
> "autocorrect" menu where the option is set to turn use of a
> left parentheses followed by a letter c into a copyright
> symbol and a left parentheses followed by the letter r into
> the registered symbol.  It is set to do this by
> default.
> > 
> > Hope this helps. smile
> > 
> > Judy s.
> > 
> > 
> > Valerie Maples wrote:
> >> In terms of working within word to produce certain
> things, I
> >> am pretty sure the execution of those 2 symbols
> (for copy
> >> right and registered trademark) have to do with
> auto spelling,
> >> but someone else, possibly Mayrie, will correct me
> if I am
> >> wrong. I know that with the settings I have set
> him both my
> >> neck and my PC it executes it encircled as opposed
> to having
> >> parenthesis on either side of the letter.
> > 
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