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If any of you smart people know QuickBooks; please help me here

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Back on page 4 there's a list of Alt + numbers tricks to make symbols appear. I'm trying to put a copyright symbol in a Word (2007) document and it isn't working. Holding Alt while entering 0165 results in a "save document" box opening as soon as I hit the 1.

Any suggestions?

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@squinney,

have you tried a simple copy/paste of the symbol itself?

©

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@squinney,

If you don't want to learn the shortcuts for each of those, you can always just use a feature of Windows computers called "Character Map" (All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map) where you can select symbols and copy them to your clipboard.

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@Robert Gentel,

Robert Gentel wrote:

If you don't want to learn the shortcuts for each of those, you can always just use a feature of Windows computers called "Character Map" (All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map) where you can select symbols and copy them to your clipboard.

Further to what Robert wrote... if you use Character Map often, you can create a shortcut on your desktop or taskbar.

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@squinney,

I can't duplicate that on my Word 2007.

I can get "save as..." by pressing and releasing ALT, then pressing 1.

Do you press ALT, type the numbers, then release ALT?

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@squinney,

You could use Word to assign a macro to insert the symbol. "Alt-C" for example.

Of course Word 2007 comes preconfigured to auto-correct "(c)" to " ©", which I had to fix because I normally want (c) to just be the letter "c" in parenthesis, not what Microsoft thinks I ought to want it to be.

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@Ticomaya,

Tico's got your easy fix "(c)" automatically changes in word.

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@OCCOM BILL,

I learned to type upside down -- ¡sıɥʇ ǝʞıן

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@easyasabc,

easyasabc wrote:

I learned to type upside down -- ¡sıɥʇ ǝʞıן

How'd you do that?

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@OCCOM BILL,

ob, click on this link to learn how to do it.

http://www.fliptext.org/

/bɹo.ʇxǝʇdı1ɟ.ʍʍʍ//:dʇʇɥ

.ʇı op oʇ ʍoɥ uɹɐǝ1 oʇ ʞuı1 sıɥʇ uo ʞɔı1ɔ 'qo

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True random numbers available over the Internet:

http://www.random.org

Random number between 1 and 13

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@Butrflynet,

Thanks Bfn! I returned to this thread to brush up on the KeyBoard shortcuts. Love this thread!
Thanks you too, DrewDad.

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@OCCOM BILL,

of course you love it O'Bill...it's YOUR thread!

hee...anyway, a big howdy you big lunk and I'm enjoying reading through this thing

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I wish thay 'd tawt computers when I was a kid in school,
along with fonetic spelling.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

If they had them then, they probably would have taught them. Thankfully, phonetic spelling never caught on.

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@OCCOM BILL,

I was wondering on how to get a fraeken computer for free without them steeling my dang identity. Can you tell me how because if allready changed my name once and it was expencive

Super cool computer tricks, for dopes like me.

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