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I've never seen this symbol before
i was working a formula in excel and i mistakenly hit a key which caused a
spade ( a la diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades) to appear. Can someone tell me what this represents and how i managed to makee this sign appear. |
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I've never seen this symbol before
you probably have something written webdings font or something similar to that -- davesexcel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ davesexcel's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=31708 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=537593 |
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I've never seen this symbol before
In consecutive cells enter =CHAR(167) thru CHAR(17)
Format these cells with the Symbol font to see the card types -- Gary''s Student "etpconscious" wrote: i was working a formula in excel and i mistakenly hit a key which caused a spade ( a la diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades) to appear. Can someone tell me what this represents and how i managed to makee this sign appear. |
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I've never seen this symbol before
Hello: There are lots of these kinds of symbols floating around. What they kinds depends on the fonts you have installed. As an example I have WP IconicSymbolsA installed. If I choose that as the font and type ALt-0205 (on the keypad, not keyboard) the spade will appear. To see what you have installed use the windows utility: charmap.exe It should be in windows/system32 directory. Here is a link describing it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q195041/ (look towards the bottom of the page) Pieter Vandenberg etpconscious wrote: : i was working a formula in excel and i mistakenly hit a key which caused a : spade ( a la diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades) to appear. Can someone tell me : what this represents and how i managed to makee this sign appear. |
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I've never seen this symbol before
Can't imagine how you could do it with one or two keys.
If you were in the Symbol font AND you entered Alt+0169 you would get a spade symbol. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/fonts.htm http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/symbols.htm With Excel 2002 and up you can use the Insert menu , then Symbol ..., then select font and character -- also not an inadvertent simply key combination thing. If you have turned on some accessibility options there might be other ways. Or maybe you have a special keyboard layout for playing board games (solitaire) <grin. --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "etpconscious" wrote in message ... i was working a formula in excel and i mistakenly hit a key which caused a spade ( a la diamonds, hearts, clubs, spades) to appear. Can someone tell me what this represents and how i managed to makee this sign appear. |
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