Re: Degrees sign

"Pam the goose" <stoke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Organic Icecube" <non@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For any odd characters you want, just go to:

START - PROGRAMMES - ACCESSORIES - SYSTEM TOOLS - CHARACTER MAP

Select the font you're using (usually Times New Roman for common
mail progs.) Click on the character you want so it's highlighted,
then look in bottom right hand corner for key strokes to make it.
Or you can also click 'select' and then 'copy' and simply right
click and paste it straight into your document.

Yes, that'll help people who don't know about it.
I just totally forgot it was there!
But when I read pmj's start-run route I realised where it was now
in the prog menu.

For some reason, the Character Map Utility is in the "System Tools"
Section of the Start Menu...

Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools

But the OnScrenn Keyboard Utility is in the "Accessibility" Section!...

Start>Run>All Programs>Accessories>Accessibility

But you can Drag & Drop & re-arrange the stuff on the Start Menu,
to suit how you want it!
:-)

You don't have to be stuck with the way it comes by Default.

& for even more Control, you can Open up & Navigate around the Start
Menu using windoze Explorer...

What you see in the normal Start Menu (by Clicking the Start Button)
is a view made up from the Contents of the User's "Start Menu" Folder
& also the "All User's" "Start Menu" Folder, both of which are in the
"Documents & Settings" Folder.

You can get to them in various ways - one quick & easy way is to
RightClick the Start Menu & choose "Explore" or "Explore All Users"

Once you have the Folder(s) Open, you can Drag & Drop & Copy & Paste
stuff around in them, however you want.

You may find it easier to do that sort of thing with *2* separate
Explorer Windows Open (side by side, or one above the other), rather
than having just one Explorer Window Open Maximised or Full Screen.

Then you can Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste from one Window to the other.

That bleeding brain played havoc with my memory, I find now after
all this time, I remember only half the details of a subject.
When I start to act on the bit I know it seems to open up the rest
of the memory and I can get where I want to be.

Well, in addition to getting to it from the Start Menu, now that you've
found it, you can put a Shortcut Icon to it anywhere else that you want,
to make it quicker & easier to get to, can't you?...

Try putting a Shortcut to it on the Desktop?
&/or in the QuickLaunch Bar?

Right Drag, rather than Left Drag & then you get a Context Menu, with
various choices, such as Copy, Move, Creat Shortcut or Cancel.

I used to use it a lot doing rally maps but the past few years
I have copied objects from old maps I did using the character map
before the bleeding brain. Next month when I do a new set I'll use
the character map like I used to and they'll be done ever so much
faster!

& also, you can add in a *Keyboard* Shortcut, to any Shortcut Icon,
on the Desktop or Start Menu. That lets you get to stuff very quickly.

& (if you have the WinXp Start Menu, rather than the old style "Classic"
Start Menu), you'll find that very handy as well, cos it keeps a List
of the most recently used stuff on the left Hand Side of it.
& you can also "Pin" stuff that you want to sstay there, so as to be
easily Accessible.

There's *loads* of things like that, that I know a lot of people (who
haven't had any Aneurisms or stuff like you have!) don't know about!
& when they find out about them & take a few minutes trying the things
out, they very often say ""ooh - I never knew that! - Isn't that
useful?"
:-)

<snip>

... This thread has wakened another patch of memory so I can only
say a sincere "Thank you" to you and the others who replied for
giving me a way to get those memories back.

Yep - I often find these sort of Threads very useful for finding out
about & reminding myself (& others) about quicker & easier ways to
do things.

& also for even just finding out that something can be done!

Many people never get to find out more than a very small, minute
fraction of what they *could* do with & use their Computers for.

--
pmj


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