How do I put extended ASCII characters in notepad and/or wordpad. I know in Word (which I don't have), you can use the alt key and press the code, but that doesn't work in notepad, I get beeps. This XP notepad, and any help would be appreciated.

Go to start>all programs>accessories and select the "Character Map" program.

Find the character you are looking for, click on it, and then copy and paste!



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Thanks, that was useful, but is there a faster method I can use from inside Notepad?

If the alt isnt working then probably not, notepad is built to be very small and only support the bare minimum, eg printing, saving, opening, typing thats why it can only use 1 font throught.

Okay, thanks. i just remember the alt thing working in older versions of notepad. I knew Windows discontinued many functions with XP, but hoped this wasn't one of them. And thanks for pointing out the character map.

maybe you can try other free software for speacial characters , i had problems befopre with note pad trying to write in chinese but now i changed software and doing very well

I didn;t really need the special characters. I was writing a program and wnated to stick a header in a box and use the ASCII double lines for the box. The character sheet worked fine, and the characters were lost when saved with ANSI anyway, so I'm fine without them. And soon I will have word 2003 for any special stuff I need.

Why not try open office, its a very nice program apart from the presentation package and its free. www.openoffice.org

You can still insert special characters in notepad using the ALT key. You need to make sure your num lock is on and then you must use the number pad while depressing the ALT key type the Unicode value available in the Character Map.

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Special Characters In Notepad

Replying to Tpositive
But we need to get the correct combination of numbers by holding on to ALT key, where can I find the combination number keys.

-reply by Madhu