useful tip - typing "degrees" symbol °

[herb fellows]

ON a dell laptop, with xp pro, all that does is show the drop down box for format.?

[LinuxRandal]

So does that (Ctrl-shift u00b0) actually give you superscript? Works only in firefox?
It sets bold and undeline in IE but no superscripting.

Let's try again. ° º What is the difference between those?

Leave out the u, just use ctrl and shift, then type.
U ONLY worked, with the degree symbol, otherwise, it does ¢ I believe that will show the cents symbol, underlined.

When I typed this long thing before, using ones I would use, at some point I found one that deleted everything I typed (I thought I just went to far down).
¼ ½ ¾ ® © ± ² ³ All these are the most needed, by me. Thanks for the tips, and this time I didn't hit some delete key.

[pelligrini]

The ° symbol is %%d in Autocad. The newer versions will substitute the symbol in the actual text for most text styles now.

[Ed62]

and the NUMLOCK has to be on

Aha! Thanks for the help. It is magic. Now it works 100° of the time.

Ed

[LinuxRandal]

The ° symbol is %%d in Autocad. The newer versions will substitute the symbol in the actual text for most text styles now.

Thanks, that means no ° (00B0) but yes to º (00BA).

[gsmittle]

For us enlightened Macintosh users, there's no need to remember arcane strings of numbers.

Shift-Option-8 gives you the °
Shift-Option-[hyphen] gives you an em dash (—)
Option-U then a vowel gives you an umlaut (ö, ï, ä, ü)
An en dash (–) is Option-[hyphen]
a bullet (•) is Option-8

My personal favorite is the ellipsis (…), Option-semicolon

There's tons more, all standardized, except some typefaces are missing some characters…

g.

[LCHIEN]

Aha! Thanks for the help. It is magic. Now it works 100° of the time.

Ed

that should be "Now works all 360° of the circle."