Dear Robert & Carl:
Being more familiar with Fedora, I will refer to that, as possibly the
answer also exists in your Ubuntu environment.
You can use an experimental blank Writer document to place the special
characters from the Oo 2.4 menu.
Then save the file.
Following that you have 2 choices, either or both.
1) Use the clipboard to cut and paste the characters into the real
document.
2) Do the same into the notepad in a special note or notes for later
repasting into other documents.
This can also be done for blocks of text, such as common expressions,
slogans, salutations, letter closures, legal terms etc. ( work in
English, French and Spanish, but if you prefer umlauts, you can have
them too!)
While I did this originally in Windows with the clipboard, I am
gradually copying it into a hyperlinked .ODT from a template I made.
this template has turned out to be a Godsend for almost any subject, and
that in 3 languages. It will also work in Oo 2.4, which I have installed
on a laptop too old to run Win XP. (It runs Windows Me.)
Robert Funnell wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Carl Shewmaker wrote:
I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm
composing in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out
of ideas. Gotta be an easy way. Any help appreciated.
Carl
In OOo 2.2 Writer under Debian: Insert > Special character. In the
dialogue box that comes up, make sure you select a font that contains
the required symbol (e.g., Times New Roman) and then look for what you
want in the array of characters. I see the degree symbol in the 8th row.
Or are you looking for a shortcut?
- Robert
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