Cool thingies you can do on a keyboard by pressing combinations of alt+various numbers .. etc (or Co

[Shaun]

OK, OK, but the thread title "Cool thingies you can do on a keyboard by pressing combinations of alt+various numbers I don't know what they're really called but I've seen the word ascii and can't be bothered to find out what it means or refers to" would have been a tad too long.

Doesn't fit ...

 

[LLB]

For total escapism, try ctrl+alt+del

you can go put the kettle on then

 

[mr Mag00]

hahahahhahahahhaa

 

[Cyclista]

Sort of on topic, if you hold the CTRL and roll the wheel on your mouse forward and back, you can scale the size of text in the browser window. And some of you might find ascii table handy.

 

[Fnaar]

Sort of on topic, if you hold the CTRL and roll the wheel on your mouse forward and back, you can scale the size of text in the browser window.

COOOOL! That's precisely why I started this thread.

 

[Maz]

Sort of on topic, if you hold the CTRL and roll the wheel on your mouse forward and back, you can scale the size of text in the browser window...

Woh. Cool!

 

[Shaun]

Sort of on topic, if you hold the CTRL and roll the wheel on your mouse forward and back, you can scale the size of text in the browser window.

... and if you don't have a scroll wheel mouse ... CTRL + "+" or "-" zooms in and out in the same way.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Fnaar]

... and if you don't have a scroll wheel mouse ... CTRL + "+" or "-" zooms in and out in the same way.

Cheers,
Shaun

Equally cool, if the smooth wheel action doesn't do it for you

 

[John the Monkey]

I've used é (alt+0233) a fair bit, and ° (alt+0176) gets used quite a lot for documenting film development.

 

[Maz]

I've used é (alt+0233) a fair bit.

I've been using (alt+cntrl+'+e) to get é.

 

[John the Monkey]

I've been using (alt+cntrl+'+e) to get é.

Feh, that's so old skool.

 

[jonathan ellis]

Like this one... alt+0169 gives you ©

you have no idea how much i need that

all these years

 

[Haitch]

But in Word you can simply type (c) and it changes automatically into ©. It's the same with (r) and ®, and TM and ™.

 

[Fnaar]

But in Word you can simply type (c) and it changes automatically into ©. It's the same with (r) and ®, and TM and ™.

Oh yeah!

 

[radger]

Alt Gr + e gives you é - and the accent on all the vowels
and it's the key you use to get the third symbol on those that have three, e.g. € on the 4 key and ¦ on the ` key

(and it gives you the bold text option in the quick reply editor if you press b with it)