£ -PERFECT!

Thank you so much! Now I can tease Whisperer in her own currency.

You rock Bookler! What are you, some kind of geek?

wooo hooo! i now feel like a complete woman!
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Now Linda it is your turn to show off how to do the copyright symbol. I seriously do need to know that one for work.

And again pretty please for those of us with a lap top. While you're at it, the euro would be mighty handy. ta

OK, just to stop you all driving Brookler nuts, here is the complete method of getting any character you want on the screen: go to http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html and find a description of the character you want and it will show the unicode number for this character - in hexadecimal, unfortunately. (If you want to brush up on hexadecimal arithmetic, you might want to start with Tom Lehrers 'new math' on youtube, as discussed in an earlier thread.) You can use the windows calculator (all programs - accessories) to convert hexadecimal to ordinary decimal. Put the calculator in scientific mode. Click on the hexadecimal 'radio button'. Type in the unicode character from http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html (you can ignore any leading zeros). Now click on the decimal radio button, and the number will change to decimal. Put back enough leading zeros to make four digits, and you have the number you need for Brookler's method.

This way, v-dog can give us quotations in the original cyrillic, though it might take him a little time.

One question for Brookler (or anyone else): is there a way of entering the hex value instead of having to use the calculator?

I don't know if the following instructions will work for all of you and your systems:
Go to the bottom left of the Windows screen, to Start. click
Scroll to Programs, which brings up a drop down menu.
Hold cursor over Accesories, which brings up another drop down menu.
Hold cursor over System Tools, which brings up another drop down menu.
Hold cursor over Character Map and left click.
A new screen/window comes up and you can select the font you want to use.
If you click in any character you see, the bottom right of that window will show the Alt + keystrokes needed to get that symbol. If there is no instruction, you can use the Select to copy the symbol and then paste it wherever you want in another document or article.

And in the bottom left corner of the Character Map window, you see the hex unicode number for the character, which you can convert, write down for later use of Brookler's method.

It does other languages too!

OMG! OMG! I'm soooooooooooo excited. I want to kiss you both. Will have to settle for jumping up and down. Oh no, can't. Hubby is asleep next to me. Not sure what will make him moore grizzly; jumping up and down, or kissing 2 men I've never met??

Actually it was quite fun!

I didn't know about the character map or any master plan of all the symbols. I learned about them years ago when I first had to write in French and needed the accents for école or Pâques. A correspondent told me how to do a couple of them, then told me to just play around with digits to find the others I needed.

The Word symbols was something I just learned now to help those with laptops. I discovered that under Insert, if you click Symbol you get a chart showing how to make all the symbols in Word.

You blew my excuse for showing off!