You always have to put a zero in front of the three digit number (using only the numeric keyboard) for the extended characters (ANSI). Of course the > symbol and = symbol are both on your keyboard. Alt 0242 is ò (grave small O). You can see all the extended characters for each font in Character Map (Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Character Map). Click the character and it's ALT number will appear in the lower right box of the character map. Be sure to have the font you wish to use in font box. This is true in all Windows programs, bye the way, which includes MS WORD as well as Illustrator.
Bob
It all depends on the font you're using.
I couldn't, for example, bring the sign with the Alt+242 combination: it gives me an underline, and 0424 - an "o" with an accent.
You can copy it from Word and paste to Illustrator, but you have to remember the font that Word uses for the symbol (select the symbol and see what the Font list says), and then select the same font in Illustrator. Don't know if it makes sense.
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The sign I mean is not < and= it's 1 sign.
It would be "greater OR equal" then. In math, it's either one or another, they can't be true simultaneously :)
I bet you have some extended version of Arial font (Cyrillic or something). AI won't work with Unicode :(
Try the next thing: set the Font to Symbol and type Alt-0179. It doesn't look as good as it could be, but it may work as well.
If you can get this sign in Illustrator please let me know the process.
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Elena,
the opposite is 0163
Also, you can find the rest of them in Windows's Character Map. The shortcuts there are somehow messed up (they don't always show the Alt sequence), but you can count the Alt sequence from the previous Alt sequence in the list.
Use the SAME font in Illustrator as was used in WORD (as long as it was TrueType or Type1 font - no Unicode fonts) and the same extended characters will be available in Illustrator for the SAME font file. If when you click on the extended character and there is no ALT+xxxx digits in the lower right, it's probably not a TT or T1 font. Also, could it be from a "math" font, which for some reason even though it's a TT font does not have ALT numbers?
Bob
Bob
it wasn't a math font, it was good old Arial, but it was Unicode...