Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Apr 19 05:26:41 CDT 2005
On 19 Apr 2005 at 11:12, Erwin Craps - IT Helps wrote: > Dear friends.... > > Whats the easyest way to get a Spanish (upside down) question mark in a > E-mail or Office? > The customer is using a English international Windows XP and Office 2K3 > (or XP). > > He says that ALT+189 should do the trick but this does not work, > probably depending on the font. > So what font does work. > Try Alt + 0191. That works in all the standard fonts. (Note that you need four digits with the leading "0". Using 3 digits in Word etc gives the old ASCII line draw characters. A great little tool for answering this sort of question quickly is the Pricelessware (http://www.pricelesswar.org) recommended utility: Extended Character Map (Freeware) Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 Languages: English Description: Extended Character Map is like the Windows Character Map utility but uses much bigger, easier-to-see characters. The utility is especially useful for viewing the pictures in a symbol or Dingbat font. Characters can be seen up to 100pt size. No more squinting at Webding characters trying to figure out "is that a race car or a textile factory?". The keystroke name is displayed in the program's status bar. The Decimal/Hex/Oct/Binary values are also displayed. Additionally, you can view the fonts with one or more attributes selected (Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout). Using ExtendedCharacterMap, any character or series of characters can be quickly copied to the clipboard. Company: -- Author: Sony Arianto Kurniawan Program description: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6166,00.asp download v 1.41 (extended.zip) (189 KB) http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/desktop/fonts/extended.zip -- Stuart