Re: Insert F4, select a symbol to print

  • From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:57:50 -0600 (CST)

Personally I find it easier to memorize the keyboard commands for these 
symbols, but the list, limited though it is in scope, does come in handy 
sometimes.

Bruce

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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Yardbird wrote:

> Jack,
> This is a pretty nice Jaws way to get around the Insert Symbols dialogue
> that used to be fairly accessible in Word and such.  Of course, that
> dialogue offers several different groups of symbols, from foreign language
> diacritical marks to all sorts of math and science symbols.  But this list
> of 48 things is very useful and welcome for me, at least.
>
> Here's why.  Right now, in fact, I'm writing something in Word that involves
> occasional dialogue involving Spanish words.  So when I need the inverted
> question mark that begins a Spanish question, or an enya character (an n
> with a little curly mark over it), or an accent mark over a letter, I just
> call up that list with Insert 4, find the upside down question mark, the
> enya, or the e-acute, and hit Enter, and there it is.
>
> Others may use the other choices on this list, for other typographical
> purposes.
>
> hope that helps,
> Daniel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:03 PM
> Subject: Insert F4, select a symbol to print
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>> Hi All,
>> Well, the subject pretty much tells you what I want to know.  Why would
>> one use this feature?  You hit insert and it says, select a symbol to
>> print, and there's a list of 48 symbols.
>> I'm just curious,  that's all.  Thanks, Jack
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