Is there a 'degrees' symbol on keyboards?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

I've looked but can't see one, surely there ought to be?

like this ° you mean?

I have a continental keyboard, so don't know where it is on a qwerty keyboard

Dont think so°

I've never found one, in word I use superscript and an o.
I'd be interested to know if there was another way with a qwerty keyboard - that would work out of word!

You can copy it from character map

i copied and pasted that from word. dont think my keyboard has one, although there is bound to be some nifty short-cut key

hmmm

thanks anyway

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it's on the "insert" then "symbols" but you can assign a key to it there is an option on insert symbols for this I think (IN WORD)

Yes there is - go to Insert then Symbol. It's there just under the alphabet at the top on the far right.

Ah I copied and pasted it from your posts so managed to do what I needed. thankyou.

If you hold down the Alt key and type 0176 you'll get one - there's a whole range of symbols, foreign letters etc available that way

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They are all here - it's a godsend

ooh thankyou

Num Lock has to be on for those (mine is always on anyway so I tend to forget that bit)

Oh, and you have to use the numeric keypad, not the ones across the top (so if you have a laptop I think you'll be out of luck, because they don't have one? Again I always use the numeric keypad so I forget that too)

It's much easier to use INSERT > SYMBOL (unless there is a character you use all the time and know the code off the top of your head).

Brilliant! That list looks really useful.

tis good, isn't it, ktpie?

winestein, I have no idea where INSERT > SYMBOL is/are to use them!

(Am total technonumpty - for your average technonumpty, my little list is actually much easier even if it is slooooow)

Lol Wendy

In Word, look at the top menu bar (you have FILE, EDIT, VIEW and then INSERT (followed by a few more)
Press INSERT to get the drop down menu and "symbol" is on that list. Click on symbol and a box comes up with all the symbols/characters in it - you just scroll through until you see the one you want.

In the symbols box there is a tab called "special characters" too and if you select that you get the trademark and copyright signs etc.

There's so much to Word. It's incredible! I found all about bookmarking and cross referencing on Mumsnet and now I have a standard report template for my work where I only have to type half the things I used to have to!

Ooooh, winestein, thank you - have found it now - that is AMAZING!

It has Hebrew and Arabic and music and Cyrillic and Greek and all sorts of fascinating symbols (shame I probably won't ever need any of them )

(All I ever do with Word is type or copy and paste, and I keep hearing how fantastic it is, I really should do a course to get more out of it!)

Ah I don't use word thats why I was confused. DH refuses anything microsoft related in this house.

Oh, have you not got Windows either then, TDWP? You will need this page which has Mac alternatives.

Not mac either, we have fecking linux at the moment. It's a pita there is little choice.

I have xp on my laptop though.

Is that HTML bit any use then? Or does your laptop have a numeric keypad? Or will one of the other bits work for you?

(What is Linux?)