Re: how to insert a symbol when composing email

[dev]

/tonyb/ said:

> Sometimes I write emails in Spanish and I need the
> letter ñ I can't find a way to do this in Windows Mail

START button|ACCESSORIES|SYSTEM TOOLS|Character Map

Select the character and press COPY.

In Windows Mail, EDIT|PASTE - or <ctrl-v>

[Carmine Castiglia]

"dev" <d...@null.invallid> wrote in message
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And, while in the Character Map application, notice that when you highlight
one of the characters, a "Keystroke" identifier appears at the bottom-right
of the window - in this case it says "Keystroke: Alt+0241". That tells you
that you can enter this character at any time, in virtually any application,
by simply holding down an Alt key while using the numeric keypad (must be;
you can't use the numbers across the top of the keyboard) to type "0241",
like this: ñ.

If you have several characters that you use often, learning their Alt-key
combinations will be a lot easier than going to the character map each and
every time you want to insert one of them.

Carmine Castiglia
http://www.infosystemspro.com
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[tonyb]

Thank You Carmine, it works !!!!! I don't think that I can use the Alt+0241
because I have a laptop
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tonyb

[Carmine Castiglia]

"tonyb" <to...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank You Carmine, it works !!!!! I don't think that I can use the
> Alt+0241
> because I have a laptop
> --
> tonyb
>

Yes, you probably can - it's just a lot (!) less convenient. All laptops
have an embedded numeric keypad which typically use a grouping of keys on
the left side of the standard keyboard; I am not near my notebook right now,
but I am going to hazard a guess and say that they are the
6,7,8,9,Y,U,I,O,H,J,K,L,N.M.comma, and period keys. Look closely at these
keys and you'll see that they have a small digit or other character printed
on the keycap above and to the right of the "normal" character.

Find the NumLock key and then give it a try.

Carmine

[tonyb]

No Carmine, it does not work......I found the hidden keypad but when I enter
the ALT+0241 I get a pull down menu for email backgrounds ......I think.
Thank You so much for your help....before when I used Outlook I had assigned
a shortcut key and
it was easy and fast........now on Vista it seems that all shortcut keys are
taken.

thanks again
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tonyb