NewDeal Hot Tip 1504
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General Use
Use Find/Replace in Text File Editor or NewWrite to replace any TABs with spaces before you try to paste into PCAO's email or message boards. For email, open the file using PCAO's CTRL+o, then hit CTRL+a to make the text into an email--that will walk around the limits in most cases.
Specifically, the following characters are not supported in Text File Editor:
| ASCII Value | Description | Keypress |
| 127 | (not used) | |
| 139 | a with tilde accent | Ctrl+Alt+n then a |
| 155 | o with tilde accent | Ctrl+Alt+n then o |
| 160 | dagger | Ctrl+Alt+t |
| 164 | section | Ctrl+Alt+6 |
| 166 | paragraph | Ctrl+Alt+7 |
| 168 | registered trademark | Ctrl+Alt+r |
| 169 | copyright | Ctrl+Alt+g |
| 170 | trademark | Ctrl+Alt+2 |
| 171 | acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e then Spacebar |
| 172 | dieresis accent | Ctrl+Alt+u then Spacebar |
| 173 | not equal | Ctrl+Alt+= |
| 175 | O with slash | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+o |
| 184 | Pi | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+p |
| 191 | o with slash | Ctrl+Alt+o |
| 194 | logical not | Ctrl+Alt+l (L) |
| 198 | Delta | Ctrl+Alt+j |
| 201 | ellipsis | Ctrl+Alt+; (semi-colon) |
| 202 | non-breaking space | Alt+Spacebar |
| 203 | A with grave accent | Ctrl+Alt+` then A |
| 204 | A with tilde | Ctrl+Alt+n then A |
| 205 | O with tilde | Ctrl+Alt+n then O |
| 206 | OE diphthong | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+q |
| 207 | oe diphthong | Ctrl+Alt+q |
| 208 | en dash | Ctrl+Alt+- (hyphen) |
| 209 | em dash | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+- (hyphen) |
| 210 | open quotes | Ctrl+Alt+[ (bracket) |
| 211 | close quotes | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+[ (bracket) |
| 212 | open single quote | Ctrl+Alt+] (bracket) |
| 213 | close single quote | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+] (bracket) |
| 215 | lozenge | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+v |
| 217 | Y with dieresis accent | Ctrl+Alt+u then Y |
| 218 | fraction | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+3 |
| 219 | general currency | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+4 |
| 220 | open single guillemet | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+< (less than) |
| 221 | close single guillemet | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+> (grtr than) |
| 222 | y with acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e then y |
| 223 | Y with acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e hen Y |
| 224 | double dagger | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+t |
| 226 | single quote low | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+l (L) |
| 227 | double quote low | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+; (semicolon) |
| 228 | per thousand | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+5 |
| 229 | A with circumflex accent | Ctrl+Alt+i then A |
| 230 | E with circumflex accent | Ctrl+Alt+i then E |
| 231 | A with acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e then A |
| 232 | E with dieresis accent | Ctrl+Alt+u then E |
| 233 | E with grave accent | Ctrl+Alt+` then E |
| 234 | I with acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e then I |
| 235 | I with circumflex accent | Ctrl+Alt+i then I |
| 236 | I with dieresis accent | Ctrl+Alt+u then I |
| 237 | I with grave accent | Ctrl+Alt+` then I |
| 238 | O with acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e then O |
| 239 | O with circumflex accent | Ctrl+Alt+i then O |
| 240 | not used | |
| 241 | O with grave accent | Ctrl+Alt+` then O |
| 242 | U with acute accent | Ctrl+Alt+e then U |
| 243 | U with circumflex accent | Ctrl+Alt+i then |
| 244 | U with grave accent | Ctrl+Alt+` then U |
| 245 | dotless i | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+i |
| 246 | circumflex | Ctrl+Alt+i then Spacebar |
| 247 | tilde | Ctrl+Alt+n then Spacebar |
| 248 | macron | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+w |
| 249 | breve accent | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+z |
| 250 | dot accent | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+d |
| 251 | ring accent | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+r |
| 252 | cedilla | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+e |
| 253 | Hungarian umlaut | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+u |
| 254 | ogonek | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+y |
| 255 | caron | Shift+Ctrl+Alt+s |
Last Modified 2 Mar 1999