I figured that Lindsay could use the mouse until he (she?) learned what the
alt-codes were. Then have the best of both worlds.

And one way to get to the CharMap.exe program.
Flying window r (if your keyboard has that flying window)
and type
charmap
and hit enter.



Gord Dibben wrote:

I guess Lindsay could use a bunch of shortcut keys to reach all those options,
but seems to me that ALT + number is a lot less work for someone "using only
the keyboard".

Gord

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:24:08 -0600, Dave Peterson
wrote:

In xl2002 and above, you could use Insert|symbol

In earlier versions, you could use Chip Pearson's addin:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/download.htm
(look for Symbolizer and make sure you get the correct version)

And you didn't ask, but if you need to know what's in the cell, get another nice
addin from Chip:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/CellView.htm

After you insert a symbol a few 100 times, you'll have it memorized and can skip
the addin/option.


Lindsay wrote:

In previous versions of Excel there were ALT + functions that allowed the
insertion of symbols using only the keyboard rather than a dropdown box.
Does anyone know if these are still in place and if so, how I might get a
listing of the necessary numbers, etc. to make use of these?

--

Dave Peterson