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Special Marks / how to copy and paste / low vision solutions

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Special Marks / how to copy and paste / low vision solutions

Postby reid on Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:48 am

First for Windows users, especially those using the remarkably good Firefox browser:
You may enlarge or shrink any page view

PS: also works nowadays with IE

by pressing and holding down
Ctrl and then pressing the + key for a magnified view.

To shrink the view again: Ctrl and the minus/hyphen key -

NB: Firefox is freeware, infinitely sleeker, safer and better to use than virus-magnet IE.
You will only have to install "plug ins" to give it full functionality for 98% of all web pages.
IE is much discredited. A Google search of "IE vs Firefox" soon tells why IE is poor.
Mac's new Safari for Windows is an up and coming browser, also freeware.
There are other browsers than these three.


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Unusual Marks to Copy and Paste

appear here in large form for ease of sight.

When copied and pasted (instructions follow)
they will match size to the new placement.

Firefox users (and maybe others):
type: ( tm ) ( r ) and ( c ) without spaces, and they come out as ™ ® and ©

begin:


...
m-dash; so-termed by the printer for its width of letter m

...(bullet)

`
ƒ

£

$

¡







Œ

¦

§

¨
(umlaut accent)
«

±

´
µ



¼

½

¾

¿

Æ

©

®




More marks will be added.
PM marks to any co-admin.

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How to Copy and Paste Text
General tutorial for new-to-computers folks
who may not know how to copy and paste things



-left click, hold the mouse button
while dragging the cursor to highlight the text to be copied.

-now hold Ctrl down
and press the C key.
(item now "copied" to clipboard)


To Paste Left click to place the blinking cursor where you want the paste.
Hold Ctrl down and press the V key.
Your m-dash, or whatever, will appear.


Please send tips or corrections by PM to me or to any co-admin.

Thank you for helping FPR grow
Last edited by reid on Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:33 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Postby visitor on Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:41 am

This works like a charm for the elusive mdash:

don't space these guys and don't make them bold & # 1 5 1 ;

and look, you get fat-assed dash ( the other is really just a hyphen)
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