Newbie plunges in!.....

[paddyscar]

After lurking and chiming in with my opinion (since Aug.), not to mention the 'pairty', I've finally taken the plunge .... and the water's FINE

Plunked down my first 6 GBP at Scotland's People, found my Gran's Marriage and Birth records. What a buzz! From those 2 documents, I know 12x more than I did about my Grandmother and about 5x more than I did about my Grandfather.

Best get back and purchase more credits while the Candian$ is riding high in terms of GBP

Can anyone tell me how to enter the symbol for GBP and Euro? Can't locate my Ascii codes list. Thanks. Frances

[Jean Jeanie]

Hello Frances

Welcome to Talkingscot.

You'll find the folks on this site very helpful.

Jean

[WilmaM]

I've finally taken the plunge .... and the water's FINE

Glad you are enjoying it

now I hope all is plain sailing for you - but you know just to shout and somebody will throw you a line

[sporran]

Hello Frances,


I do not have a US ASCII system to check, so you may need to experiment.

The £ symbol should be obtained by holding down the Alt key, typing 0163 on the numeric pad, then releasing the Alt key. If it is not 0163, try from about 0140 upwards until you are lucky, and remember it.

The Euro symbol € is printed on modern European keyboards. In the UK it is on the '4' key, and is accessed using CTRL Alt 4. I do not think that it is printed on US keyboards or is part of normal ASCII character sets. Perhaps the easiest way is to go into Word, and use Insert Symbol from the menu bar. Pick normal text from the font box and Currency Symbols from the subset box, then insert the symbol. Highlight the symbol and use CTRL C to copy it. In TalkingScot, use CTRL V to paste it.


Regards,

John

[darrenst]

Hi Frances.

I am in Scotland but have a US keyboard for no good reason, so I am forever doing the Alt-0163 trick mentioned by John. The same trick but with Alt-0128 will give you a euro.

There's a handy wee program built into Windows called Character Map. It will help you locate any character / symbol and let you copy and paste them into any other Windows application. On Windows XP you can get to it in Start / Program Files / Accessories / System Tools / Character Map. On any version of Windows, Start / Run and type "charmap" should also work.

If you click the advanced view checkbox, there is a search box. If you type "euro" and press Search it should display the character, and also show the keyboard Alt-code at the bottom right of the window if there is one.

Cheers,

Darren

[Bob Haining]

Hi Frances, I got this from google a few years ago, I keep a copy by the keyboard, find it very handy.

Many of the common characters can be done from the numeric key pad and the alt key...
Just hold down the alt key and punch in the numeric on the "keypad", little shorter and quicker for me.

° degree sign = ALT+0176
¼ one fourth = ALT+0188
½ one half = ALT+0189
¾ three fourth = ALT+0190
¢ cent sign = ALT+0162
² square = ALT+0178
³ cube = ALT+0179
± plus/minus = ALT+0177
‰ zero percent = ALT+0137 (not sure what this means)

[paddyscar]

Thanks for all the directions and warm welcomes. I've done research all my working life, so the retireee doesn't fall far from the tree

Frances

[AnnetteR]

[quote="Bob Haining"]Hi Frances, I got this from google a few years ago, I keep a copy by the keyboard, find it very handy.

Many of the common characters can be done from the numeric key pad and the alt key...
Just hold down the alt key and punch in the numeric on the "keypad", little shorter and quicker for me.

° degree sign = ALT+0176
¼ one fourth = ALT+0188
½ one half = ALT+0189
¾ three fourth = ALT+0190
¢ cent sign = ALT+0162
² square = ALT+0178
³ cube = ALT+0179
± plus/minus = ALT+0177
‰ zero percent = ALT+0137 (not sure what this means)

[Tracey]

Hello Frances

This is by far the LEAST snobby, uppity site you will find - despite how long you have been researching this site doesnt treat you like an idiot if you (me !) ask a stupid or obvious question that you later realise was staring you in the face ! and doesnt snigger at your grammer or spelling mistackes (deliberate ! although i cant say about the rest of it !) or call you lazy because you use the internet and dont have the time to spend trapsing the country or to go to a library and look up everything yourself - for those of us with full time jobs who happen to take a serious interest in where we came from (as most of us live far from that place !) this is a very welcoming warm site.

Enjoy

[JimM]

[quote="AnnetteR"][quote="Bob Haining"]Hi Frances, I got this from google a few years ago, I keep a copy by the keyboard, find it very handy.

Many of the common characters can be done from the numeric key pad and the alt key...
Just hold down the alt key and punch in the numeric on the "keypad", little shorter and quicker for me.

° degree sign = ALT+0176
¼ one fourth = ALT+0188
½ one half = ALT+0189
¾ three fourth = ALT+0190
¢ cent sign = ALT+0162
² square = ALT+0178
³ cube = ALT+0179
± plus/minus = ALT+0177
‰ zero percent = ALT+0137 (not sure what this means)