Keyboard shortcuts

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:56 pm

Some time ago, a helpful TS forumite posted a list of helpful shortcuts for more common symbols not on the basic keyboard. I forgot to print it out and cannot find it anywhere on TS. Does anyone know where the list is?

I am actually looking for "lowered" inverted commas, ie ,, but closer together, but can´t see them on the Word insert symbol list. Any suggestions? (apart from buying a magnifying glass)

With thanks,

Thrall

Post by **AndrewP** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:40 pm

Hi Thrall,

Alt 0132 will give you the „ (0132 on the number keypad only - a bit trickier on laptop keyboards).

They can all be found using the character map program.

Programs --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Character Map

On the character map, if you click on the symbol you want, the alt numbers will be shown in the bottom right corner - if it is available from the keboard in that manner. Otherwise copy and paste from the Character Map.

All the best,

AndrewP

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:06 pm

Thanks Andrew, minutes after you replied, my daughter arrived back for Xmas holidays from university and said instantly, „you need ALT 0147 to close, right?“

Anyway, now I´m wiser..............

Thrall

Rach · Post by **Rach** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:01 pm

Thrall,
I know the feeling. Anything I get stuck with linked to new technology my children feel very superior when they sort it out in minutes, if not in seconds!
In the far off days when video players were new I had phoned to get someone to come and fix it for me. Daughter comes home from school and has it going in no time. I think that was the first time that she realised that parents don't know everything!
Rae

Bob Haining · Post by **Bob Haining** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:11 pm

Hi Thrall,

Check out this posting from a couple of years ago.

http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:50 am

Hi Bob, thanks for that; I knew I´d seen something like that before. The strange inverted commas are a speciality of Icelandic script which I am trying to adopt, avoiding the obvious use of "........." which seem to be more and more common here. Alright, I´m a nerd......

Guid hunting,

Thrall

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:54 am

Nerds are quite often smarter than any six of the rest of us put together!

Be glad that you can be one!

Carol

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:02 am

Hi Carol, I´m feeling better already!

Of course, seeing one´s bairn after many months´ absence is definitely a plus, and when they arrive convinced they can conquer the world (at least slowly), things do look up!

Now we are waiting for the other one, arrives on Xmas eve with partner of several years; however did I end up with both offspring studying in the US, after all the US phobia I was brought up in, in Scotland; of course the the hundred dollar question is, what will their accents be like after all that time in the west? If this sounds like predudice, well, I hope that one can at least have preferences in this modern world.

I asked my daughter about this most salient point on the way in from the airport, and she said that it was really best to be flexible, and speak like the natives when necessary, and get back to „standard English“ when desirable, ie when not ordering coffee in Starbucks.
Anyway, we will all celebrate Xmas, here in Reykjavík, family together for once, and I doubt we will then be thinking about accents or phonetics.

Guid Hunting,

Thrall