Re: Em Dash & Bullets

by "Lauren Hanka" <bluejay(at)starband.net>

Date:	Wed, 9 May 2001 11:11:27 -0700
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Subject: Re: Em Dash & Bullets


> Lauren:
>
> >I continued
> > to press 151, but nothing appeared.
> > What did I miss?
>
> Sounds like your Caps Lock or Scroll Lock may be "On".
>
> The method is to hold down the Alt key while typing 0151.
> However, if either the Caps or Scroll lock is "depressed", (Valium won't
> help), you may get beeped and/or need to use the Key Pad as Jim mentioned.
> Also--to double check--we are talking about ZERO-one-five-one. (No "Oh"s
> allowed)

No. It's not that!

> This Alt+0151 business only holds true if you are using a WYSIWYG editor,
> like Dreamweaver or FrontPage. In this case, both of them will (usually?)
> automatically change it to:
> &#151-- just like the page that Fuzzy mentioned.

Well *there* you have it. It's always just me and Notepad, or me and Simple
Text!

Thanks, Ted!
Lauren

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