Interesting, the US keyboards do not have such a key. All of the characters
you gave as examples ( { } [ ] \ | @ # � ) are just secondary keys. I've
never seen a US keyboard with third-tier keys. Except for mini and laptop
keyboards.
dwyatt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolina Kohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Typing special characters
Hi Larry,
I am in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain (Atlantic Ocean, in
front of Marrocco - Africa) ; probably you haven't even heard of it, it's a
very
small volcanic island, the population is around 80.000 people, but loads of
tourists.
I have a normal keyboard, I guess it must be a Spanish one because it has
the
�, which is an exclusively spanish letter like in ESPA�A. It also has 3
Microsoft keys, you know the ones that get you to the Start Menu in Windows
and
other things that I don't know, I've never used them.
In my keyboard there isn't a ~ key.
But there is a -Alt Gr- key, which is just next to the space bar on the
right,
you use it normally to type the third character of a key when it exists,
like:
{ } [ ] \ | @ # �
I supose there must be a key for the same purpose in other keyboards, even
if
they call it with a different name.
To type ~ , I have to click Alt Gr + 4 (but not in the numeric pad),
although
in the 4 key you can only see the 4 and the $ (this one you type it with
Shift+4), that's why I didn't find the way to type this character.
Cheers,
Carol^
El jue, 21 sep 2000, escribiste: > > It's ALT GR + 4 (on the upper
part of the keyboard, not on the numeric one on >
> I'm curious Carolyn, what's a "GR" key? Where are you anyway and what
> sort of keyboard do you have?
>
> Cheers --- Larry
