The font on both my office machine XL97/SR2 and this home machine XL97/SR1
is the standard Ariel. As I said, at work if I enter Alt-1234 I get the Pi
symbol with CODE() reading 45, but, here at home by typing in Alt-1234 I get
just a hyphen with CODE() reading 45..........also on this machine I have
XL2k and it returns the hyphen and CODE() 45 also.........I have no clue to
the mechanics of it all, just reporting what I've seen.....
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3
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"Bryan Hessey"
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Hi,
Can I ask which Font you are using, as I need Alt-112 (or Alt-0112)
with the Symbol font to produce a Pi symbol. (Windows XP, Office 2003)
I use the attached sheet (Chars, is like Charmap with addresses) to
determine which characters will be displayed for the relavant Alt-code
for the currently selected Font, and note that where a 4 digit code
Alt-0nnn to Alt-0255 is entered the chacters from rows 17 to 29 of
worksheet Chars are displayed, whereas if Alt-nnn to Alt-255, or a
calculated figure are used then characters from rows 3 to 15 are
displayed.
The 'calculated figure' - it seems that for any Alt-entry not in the
Alt-0 to Alt-256 or Alt-0000 to Alt-0256 ranges that the character
displayed is the Mod of the entered code divided by 256 (or
thereabouts). I did a partial construction of numbers Alt-1000+ and
Alt-2000+, and these seem to follow the plan.
If this is correct, then the '1' is your Alt-1234 cannot be returned as
it is not (as I had previously thought) a 'code', but is just a part of
a 'to big' code that is trimmed to the 0-255 range.
If anyone has a better understanding of the Alt-code system I would
welcome a better explanation, however to Gary''s Student's original
question, I have no method to determine whether the character was the
result of an Alt-0nnn or 'other' entry, ie, whether the display came
from rows 3-15 or 17-29.
Bryan
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CLR Wrote:
Just a point of reference, in my Excel97, SR2......when I type Alt-1234
in
A1, A1 displays the Pi symbol, and =CODE(A1) shows 45. If I type in
Alt-045, the cell displays a hyphen. If I type in a hyphen, =CODE(A1)
shows
45 again........also, Chip's CodeView Add-in follows suite.
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3
"Gary''s Student" wrote:
What is the function to return the code associated with a unicode
symbol? If
I enter ALT-1234 in cell (say A1), I get a pi-type symbol:
â•¥
However CODE(A1) returns a 63. How can I get the 1234 back?
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