Character Code

[Allen]

I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this
question - but here goes:

I am aware that I can create various characters in Word
or Excel by typing the Alt key plus a character code on
the numeric keypad. For example the paragraph sign, ¶,
is obtained by using Alt+0182. Where can I obtain a
complete list of all the character codes? I've exhausted
all the online help files I can find with no results.

 

[Eric Graham]

Try http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html


I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this
question - but here goes:

I am aware that I can create various characters in Word
or Excel by typing the Alt key plus a character code on
the numeric keypad. For example the paragraph sign, ¶,
is obtained by using Alt+0182. Where can I obtain a
complete list of all the character codes? I've exhausted
all the online help files I can find with no results.

 

[Eric Graham]

or this one http://www.1728.com/altchar.htm


I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this
question - but here goes:

I am aware that I can create various characters in Word
or Excel by typing the Alt key plus a character code on
the numeric keypad. For example the paragraph sign, ¶,
is obtained by using Alt+0182. Where can I obtain a
complete list of all the character codes? I've exhausted
all the online help files I can find with no results.

 

[Eric Graham]

I would go with this one http://www.umass.edu/langctr/altnum.htm


I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this
question - but here goes:

I am aware that I can create various characters in Word
or Excel by typing the Alt key plus a character code on
the numeric keypad. For example the paragraph sign, ¶,
is obtained by using Alt+0182. Where can I obtain a
complete list of all the character codes? I've exhausted
all the online help files I can find with no results.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You should have the character map on your computer. It is part of the Windows
Components. Open Add/Remove Programs in the control panel. Click Add/Remove Windows
Components, double-click Accessories and Utilities, Double-click Accessories, check
Character Map.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
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I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this
question - but here goes:

I am aware that I can create various characters in Word
or Excel by typing the Alt key plus a character code on
the numeric keypad. For example the paragraph sign, ¶,
is obtained by using Alt+0182. Where can I obtain a
complete list of all the character codes? I've exhausted
all the online help files I can find with no results.

 

[Don MI]

I am not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this
question - but here goes:

I am aware that I can create various characters in Word
or Excel by typing the Alt key plus a character code on
the numeric keypad. For example the paragraph sign, ¶,
is obtained by using Alt+0182. Where can I obtain a
complete list of all the character codes? I've exhausted
all the online help files I can find with no results.

Mary Sauer provide you one way.

In Word go to Insert, Symbol. If the symbol has a ASCII code that you can
use by Alt-{n}, as you described, it will {in Word 2003} be shown in the
short cut key for the symbol {at the bottom of the insert window}. However
that is not the limit. There are also Unicode symbols that you can insert
by entering the Unicode number and the then pressing Alt-x. There are also
some symbols that you can insert by using other shortcut keys. You can
also insert any symbol by selecting the symbol and choosing insert.

Excel 2003 is similar but not as flexible.

Don

 

[Don MI]

Also

In Word 2003 and Excel 2003 {I recal prior versions are simitliar}, if you
have configurated Tools, Autocorrect Options to replace while typing,
predetermined symbols can be inserted by typing the code. For example: (c)
is predetermined to insert the copyright symbol You can add any code and
frequently used smybol you desire.

Don

 

[Joy]

Thanks, all, for these URLs. Now I have a Character question. Someone once
sent me an e-mail with musical notes and she said she used the ALT + number
pad (I don't remember which number, but that number gave ME something
entirely different.) Does anyone know how to do musical notes?

 

[James Silverton]

Thanks, all, for these URLs. Now I have a Character question. Someone once
sent me an e-mail with musical notes and she said she used the ALT + number
pad (I don't remember which number, but that number gave ME something
entirely different.) Does anyone know how to do musical notes?

I don't know any way to insert musical symbols with any standard fonts
but music fonts do exist. Try a Google search on music font word, for
example. This brings up details of fonts both free and commercial. One
example that I have no experience with is
http://www.icogitate.com/~ra849/fonts/music-fonts2.htm

 

[James Silverton]

+
I don't know any way to insert musical symbols with any standard fonts
but music fonts do exist. Try a Google search on music font word, for
example. This brings up details of fonts both free and commercial. One
example that I have no experience with is
http://www.icogitate.com/~ra849/fonts/music-fonts2.htm

I was not quite correct: entering 266a or 266b then ALT+x does give
two note symbols. Have a look at Insert Symbol from Unicode (hex).

 

[Joy]

James,

Here is what my sister had written to me (in quotes). It's showing the
notes here, but I hope when I send it, you'll receive it that way.

Thanks for your suggestions, but I'm not sure I understand what you are
saying about the 266a, etc. I'll need more step-by-step directions.

"Now about the notes: ☺♫ I press Alt and then 154 on the far right side of
the keyboard. The smiley faces are Alt-155. ½ is Alt-174 (which you taught
me) and ¼ is Alt-172."

 

[James Silverton]

James,

Here is what my sister had written to me (in quotes). It's showing the
notes here, but I hope when I send it, you'll receive it that way.

Thanks for your suggestions, but I'm not sure I understand what you are
saying about the 266a, etc. I'll need more step-by-step directions.

"Now about the notes: ☺♫ I press Alt and then 154 on the far right side of
the keyboard. The smiley faces are Alt-155. ½ is Alt-174 (which you taught
me) and ¼ is Alt-172."

What's going on is the Unicode (hex) method of entering symbols. You
type 266a in your document and then hit ALT-x which will magically
change it! 266a is the hexadecimal code for what I am told is an
eighth note and 266b "beamed eighth notes". The method can be used for
all characters but the ALT + decimal number method is usually easier.

The other stuff was to indicate that you can get details of a
remarkable number of symbols by giving:

Insert....Symbol

Make sure that the Symbol tag is uppermost at the top of the panel
which will then show two little windows at the bottom right. The
rightmost one can be pulled down to Unicode (hex) and then an amazing
(to me) number of characters appear including Arabic, Russian and
Hebrew, I think.

Jim.

 

[Joy]

Wow, that is "magical"! But it can't be done in an e-mail, can it? I just
tried in in a Word document and it works just like you said. Also in Word,
I can do Insert-Symbol and can find smiley (and frowney) faces. But again,
not in an e-mail unless I'm still not doing something right ? ?

If all else fails (and if I want to bother), in an e-mail I can
Insert-Picture-Browse and use clip art for either musical notes or a variety
of smiley faces that I've saved from the internet. But it was/is so
frustrating that the ones I received were done so easily with the number
pad!

 

[James Silverton]

Wow, that is "magical"! But it can't be done in an e-mail, can it? I just
tried in in a Word document and it works just like you said. Also in Word,
I can do Insert-Symbol and can find smiley (and frowney) faces. But again,
not in an e-mail unless I'm still not doing something right ? ?

Perhaps someone can tell me how to do in Outlook Express without
setting Word as my e-mail editor but I don't know myself. I suspect I
would get into all sorts of problems with the way different countries
deal with e-mail. The Euro currency symbol is a case in point and for
currency in e-mails it is usually safer to use the three letter codes
like USD, EUR, GBP etc.

 

[Gary Smith]

What's going on is the Unicode (hex) method of entering symbols. You
type 266a in your document and then hit ALT-x which will magically
change it! 266a is the hexadecimal code for what I am told is an
eighth note and 266b "beamed eighth notes". The method can be used for
all characters but the ALT + decimal number method is usually easier.

This works in some versions of some applications, but it's not universal.
It works in Wordpad on Windows 2000 and later, but not in earlier
versions. I believe the first version of Word to have it was 2002 (Office
XP). I don't know whether it works in any version of Outlook Express.

 

[Gary Smith]

"Now about the notes: ?? I press Alt and then 154 on the far right side of
the keyboard. The smiley faces are Alt-155. ? is Alt-174 (which you taught
me) and ? is Alt-172."

What you see when you type these Alt codes is dependent on the default
character set established for your system, the font currently in effect,
and the application used to enter them. What the recipient of a message
sees will be dependent on the receiving system.

I can't find any way on my system to make Alt-154 produce something that
looks like musical notes. Alt-14 will do it in Notepad and in Word, but
that character is really a control character that may not survive
transmission though email.

 

[Don MI]

Wow, that is "magical"! But it can't be done in an e-mail, can it? I just
tried in in a Word document and it works just like you said. Also in Word,
I can do Insert-Symbol and can find smiley (and frowney) faces. But again,
not in an e-mail unless I'm still not doing something right ? ?

If all else fails (and if I want to bother), in an e-mail I can
Insert-Picture-Browse and use clip art for either musical notes or a variety
of smiley faces that I've saved from the internet. But it was/is so
frustrating that the ones I received were done so easily with the number
pad!

In Outlook Express change your mail format to Rich Text (HTML) and try the
ALT+ASCII code again. Outlook Express does not appear to support
unicodi-ALT-X

Don

 

[Joy]

Don,
I keep my outgoing e-mail on Rich Text. It's only otherwise if I'm doing
Reply to someone who sent plain text. But we are talking new mail, not
reply. When you say Alt+ASCII, do you mean Alt+the number pad numbers? (Or
something else). I've seen the term ASCII a lot, but not sure what it
means, or is. Using Rich Text, if I use Alt+155 I get something different
than what I had received from someone else using Alt+155. That's the puzzle
to me.
Joy

 

[Don MI]

Don,
I keep my outgoing e-mail on Rich Text. It's only otherwise if I'm doing
Reply to someone who sent plain text. But we are talking new mail, not
reply. When you say Alt+ASCII, do you mean Alt+the number pad numbers? (Or
something else). I've seen the term ASCII a lot, but not sure what it
means, or is. Using Rich Text, if I use Alt+155 I get something different
than what I had received from someone else using Alt+155. That's the puzzle
to me.
Joy

ALT-ASCII = ALT+ the number pad numbers.

ASCII is an acronym referring to a standard established by a technical group
recognized by the National Bureau of Standards as authorized to produce
standards. A number of such engineering groups are so recognized. I think,
but at this time are not sure, that ASC refers to the American Society of
Computer Engineers. ASCII is a standard that relates numbers, characters
and symbols to specific code. For example the number 155 relates to the
cents symbol and the number 0155 relates to the > symbol.

As a standards, the code ALT-155 should always correspond to the cents
symbol. As far as I know all fonts that have ASCII code assigned to
numbers, characters and symbols follow the ASCII standard. While all
numbers, characters have assigned ASCII code numbers not all symbols have
ASCII code numbers. If you look at various symbols in Character Map some
will have only unicode assigned.

I do not understand "Using Rich Text, if I use Alt+155 I get something
different than what I had received from someone else using Alt+155. That's
the puzzle to me.". Unless there a confusion between 155 and 0155. Perhaps
someone else can help.

Don

 

[Joy]

Thanks, Don,

What I meant by getting something different with Alt+155 is that someone
sent me a smiley face in an e-mail and she said she did it doing Alt+155,
whereas what I get is, as you say, the cents symbol. Also she sent musical
notes using Alt+154, but doing that I get Ü. My original question was how I
could put musical notes in an e-mail. Might a Mac have a different
arrangement? She was writing from a school where she works, and it's
possible the school might have Macs, I haven't had a chance to ask her yet.