Hi folks, Sorry to post this here but I know this forum gets the most responses and someone else may need the info too. A professional artist friend of mine just switched to xp from a mac system. Here's his question: You don't happen to know how to type a copyright symbol or an accent over an e on Windows do you? I knew how to do it on the Mac, but windows doesn't do it the same way... I would like to know as well, if anybody has the answers or a link to common keyboard symbols. I remember somebody mentioning how to do the copyright thing a while ago but searching the forum didn't turn anything up. Thanks in advance!!

Here, copy-and-paste, have fun ....

Depends on what application you're using. MS Word will put it in automatically if you type (c). Otherwise: Go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map. Find the symbol you want, copy to clipboard, paste. There are shortcuts for some symbols and accents, etc, but they can be different depending on your keyboard configuration.

Depends on what country you are in, since keyboard layouts differ between languages. However, there is always an ASCII code you can use to enter any given symbol, but I'm not sure what it is in this case.

Buy a bilingual keyboard and load up the appropriate keyboard page. Then you can do like me and go back and forth all the time... It'll drive you nuts, especially if you do coding, but then nuts is cool... I'm told...

Thanks for the responses so far. I thought there was just a series of keys to press on any standard keyboard and then you would get the copyright symbol to appear. Yes? No? Thanks again, I'll check back here in the morning.

this is how i type the symbol Windows keyboard while depressing the "alt" key use the numeric keypad and type "0" "1" "6" "9" so alt+0169

Works even on mine. Cool....

Try using my utility TYPECASE. It is in the Renderosity freestuff. P.S. Re Depends on what application you're using. MS Word will put it in automatically if you type (c). Thanks. Another reason for me to stick to Word Perfect, on top of Word for Windows's (expletive deleted) fancy autoexec running viruses. If I type sin(c), I want the sine of c, not the sine of copyright.

in most packages I have, the copyright symbol is Option-G

Does someone have copyright on this symbol? :0)

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smiller1: Nobody has copyright on it as far as I know, but the hilarious people at Despair Inc (www.despair.com) copyrighted the :-( smiley as a joke. They use it as a company logo and threathened to sue every e-mail sender who used it. It's a quite funny story about this on their website, making fun of other strange copyrights and patents (such as Amazons ridiculous patent on "one click shopping")

well I like the alt o169 thing that was easy lol thanks you wouldn't believe how long I've wondered that myself. tried wordpad once hated doing it that way though. lol

= ctrl+alt+e = ctrl+alt+a = ctrl+alt+i = ctrl+alt+o = guess Laptops usually have a hotkey for turning part of the regular keyboard into a numeric keypad substitute, though switching may become stale rather quickly.

Thanks, JVRenderer! I tried it in PaintShop Pro using the text feature and the alt+0169 gave me the symbol without a hitch. Now I can stamp the proper rather than (c). Sincerely, Bill

Another alternative, especially useful for laptop users, is to use the Character Map. Under Win98 it is located in the accessoriessystem tools. Make your selection copy and paste where you need.

One other way is to use the font set 'Legal and Trademark' which is available on the various FreeFont sites (the c character always comes out as a 'copyright' symbol

The Windows Character Map's dsplay is too small and fiddly and hard to see. My TYPECASE has a much bigger and clearer display.

Thanks, Anthony! Great little application.

the whole 255 ascii character set is available through the old 'alt+nnn' settings. This goes all the way back to Dos (well, that's as far as I go). Any of those ↕0┤ characters can be done the same way (when I was a lad, we had to draw boxes this way..we liked it, we loved it, we couldn't ..er, ahem..sorry went into 'old git' mode..;)

In Windows XP: Start, All Programs, Accessories, Tools, Character Map.

Also: Start > Run > charmap :0)

I ususually just insert it, using the shapes tool in adobe photoshop. Hope that helps ya!

You have to love Word's "auto-correct". When doing math: sin(c) becomes sin() A colon followed by a parenthesis becomes a smiley face: (as in:) becomes (as in(smiley character) When typing a letter:

• This is the first item
• This should be the next paragraph and I don't want it to be the next item 1) First item in a list. A separate paragraph here... 2) The first item in the next list which is automatically, but improperly, numbered.

And, if I write in Word for Windows: y = exp(ABc) , watch out for it "correcting" it to: y = exp(Abc) . and suchlike petty nuisances.

You are aware that you can turn AutoCorrect off, right?

Tools > AutoCorrect > Uncheck "Replace Text As You Type".

You can even customize the AutoCorrect features, if necessary.

Droid the character map will tell you the alt code at the bottom of its screen as well as the unicode. You should get to know it - it doesn't take very long. I just went through this with the euro (alt 0128) sign. (alt 0169)?

cheers,
-TJ

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