My new notebook is a wide screen with a numeric keypad next to the standard
alphabetic keypad. Though on my old one, holding the FN and ALT keys while
typing 0177 worked just fine.

- Jon
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"widman" wrote in message
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switching to the keypad in the middle of a formula or whatever on a
notebook
to do an alt symbol, even if there is enough light to see the little grey
numbers is cumbersom and worse than the insert. That is why I said no to
that solution from the beginning.



"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

You can still use a notebook, usually you press the Fn key to get the
numpad
equivalent

However you can also use insert. symbols



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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom


"widman" wrote in message
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is there a way to place the ± symbol on the tool bar so you can insert
it
into text without going to the symbols and selecting it.
(the alt code won't work - using a notebook)