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Re: How to make the ¢ sign (as in "My 2¢")
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:53:32 GMT
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Thanx Matt!
All the info you've provided is great... But I'll just cut and paste
directly from your post.
My 2¢
--==Richard==--
(Richard, who's a bit slow but catches on eventually!)
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Gerber writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Richard Noeckel writes:
> > That’s my 2 cents,
> > <Richard, who still can’t get that alt and 155 thing to work!>
> >
> > > alt and 155 - and *that*, I believe, is the geekiest thing I know ;)
> > > 2¢ Julie
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> Richard (and anyone else who has been *aching* to use the ¢ sign:
>
> From: http://members.nbci.com/jmilner/savethecent.html (cute page, go see it)
>
> Mac users have it really easy. In whatever application you are in, type
> option-4. Viola! (gotta' love them Macs!-Matt)
>
> Windows folks... well, you don't have it so lucky. Fortunately, there are a
> couple of different ways for you, so pick the one that works the best for you.
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> * Choose "Symbol..." from Word's Insert menu, choose the appropriate font
> and locate the cent sign, OR
> * Select the cent sign from anywhere on this page, then select Copy. In a
> Notepad document, choose Paste, then save the file. Now you have a ¢
> whenever you need it - just copy & paste from your text file. (Thanks to
> George Wells.)
> * From your Start menu, choose Programs > Accessories > Character Map. Then
> double click on the ¢ character. Click Select... click copy, then paste it
> wherever you need the sign. (Thanks to Milena.)
> * If you're really desperate, some programs will let you press the ALT key
> and the ASCII combination for the special character you're looking for. The
> ¢ is ALT+0162. This works very well for those of you running DOS-based
> text-only email clients and word processing programs. (Thanks to Carrie Beth.)
>
> For more ¢ fun, see this site also, it's clever:
> http://www.scruz.net/~canderso/the.htm
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> Happy ¢ing!
>
> Matt
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