Most Useful Discovery for Online Woodworkers EVER EVER EVER

[Droogs]

If you have a number pad on your keyboard, you can insert the degree symbol by just pressing the left ALT key and the numbers 0176 sequentially
°


Woohoooo

 

[dzj]

6°......it works!

 

[MikeK]

And for the enlightened group, the Option-Shift-8 works on the Mac. °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

 

[dannyr]

6deg

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I can't get to 6. 017 takes me out of UKW.

 

[imageel]

On Windoze charmap is your friend....

As in press 'windoze key', type char <return>

 

[--Tom--]

Most of the time I cheat and use ctrl&shift&+ for superscript then use an o for degrees

 

[Fitzroy]

as an engineer I use these three all the time.

° - Alt 0176
³ - Alt 0179
² - Alt 0178

 

[Droogs]

Ohh X³ & Y² is useful too

@MikeK by enlightened you mean "should be burned at the stake"?



Today's turning into a good day

 

[Sgian Dubh]

Alt0169 = ©. Handy for copyrighting text you write and images such as photos you take and drawings you create, especially if you publish your work and are bothered about asserting or defending your intellectual property.
Alt0177 = ±. Useful for a range either side of a specific number , e.g., North American kiln operators generally aiming to dry furniture grade wood to 7% MC ±2%.
Alt0228 = ä, useful for Häfele (hardware, etc), or anywhere else where that accent, the name of which escapes me at the moment (umlaut, maybe?), applies.
Slainte.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

it is indeed an umlaut, or a dierisis.

 

[Inspector]

And for the enlightened group, the Option-Shift-8 works on the Mac. °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°

On my iMac I press Option 0 (zero not an oh) and the degree symbol º magically appears.

Pete

 

[thetyreman]

™

 

[TRITON]

I dont like messing with the keyboard as in the past its gone askew and stopped working properly. After that I decided to leave well alone.

 

[D_W]

I've always done this as 1959

º

though knowing that that is just a numerical repeat of something earlier - as mentioned above.

I'm sure I'll never remember the shorter and easier number.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

None of it works on my keyboard as it is, and I haven't the computer literacy to find out how to get it to.

 

[J-G]

I've always done this as 1959

º

That's not a 'Degree' sign it's the feminine Ordinal. Often use for Nº to denote 'number' or (for Left-pondians) #

 

[J-G]

None of it works on my keyboard as it is, and I haven't the computer literacy to find out how to get it to.

I suspect that you don't have [NumLock] 'ON' which means that you actually type [Ins][End] & [Home] - and of course [Home] takes you out of UKW.

 

[J-G]

I've had the attached .PDF document on my desktop for many years - obviously only useful for the enlightened (those using Windows)

 

[D_W]

That's not a 'Degree' sign it's the feminine Ordinal. Often use for Nº to denote 'number' or (for Left-pondians) #

oh my. I had no idea. When I do it in notepad and then in word, they all look different.