ASCII COde, Please
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JERRY MARTIN
Morning all.
Using JAWS 2018, MS Word 13 and Windows 10 on a Dell laptop, can anyone
provide me with the ascii code for a checkmark? Thanks.
Jerry
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JM Casey
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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JERRY MARTIN
Jm:
I also did some checking, via the wonderful world of the internet, and
there is an alt code for the checkmark in MS Word 13. It is as follows:
Alt 10003.
Thanks for the alternative option, though.
From: JM
Casey
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 12:54 PM
To: jaws-users-list@groups.io
Subject: Re: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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Sherry Wells
Wow, this is pretty cool – who knew! I played around with this a bit & using the instructions below, different numbers create different symbols. For instance typing 2708 instead of 2713, highlighting it & hitting alt x gives you an airplane!
Sherry Wells
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 1:55 PM To: jaws-users-list@groups.io Subject: Re: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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Brian Lee
If your laptop has a number pad then with number lock on hold down Alt and use 010003 followed by a space. The heavy checkmark symbol is Alt with 010004.
Brian Lee brianllee@...
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io [mailto:jaws-users-list@groups.io] On Behalf Of jyandt.martin@...
Sent: June 24, 2019 6:41 AM To: jaws-users-list <jaws-users-list@groups.io> Subject: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
Morning all.
Using JAWS 2018, MS Word 13 and Windows 10 on a Dell laptop, can anyone provide me with the ascii code for a checkmark? Thanks.
Jerry
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mona
I tried playing with 2713 and 2708, selecting the numbers then typing alt x. Didn’t work. What did I do wrong? I also tried the checkmark and heavy checkmark and they did work.
Thanks in advance
Mona
Dogs have owners; cats have staff.
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of Sherry Wells
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 2:17 PM To: jaws-users-list@groups.io Subject: Re: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
Wow, this is pretty cool – who knew! I played around with this a bit & using the instructions below, different numbers create different symbols. For instance typing 2708 instead of 2713, highlighting it & hitting alt x gives you an airplane!
Sherry Wells
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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JM Casey
Strange. Doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong. I was going to say that you have to make sure you *select* the number code, and not just put your cursor on it, but it sounds like you already did this.
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of mona
Sent: June 25, 2019 8:07 AM To: jaws-users-list@groups.io Subject: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
I tried playing with 2713 and 2708, selecting the numbers then typing alt x. Didn’t work. What did I do wrong? I also tried the checkmark and heavy checkmark and they did work.
Thanks in advance
Mona
Dogs have owners; cats have staff.
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of Sherry Wells
Wow, this is pretty cool – who knew! I played around with this a bit & using the instructions below, different numbers create different symbols. For instance typing 2708 instead of 2713, highlighting it & hitting alt x gives you an airplane!
Sherry Wells
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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JM Casey
Hi. I didn’t really know about this either, but it *is* pretty cool. You can get all sorts of symbols this way, and I don’t think you have to mess around with the font, though I can’t be sure that they all show up correctly in all fonts.
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of Sherry Wells
Sent: June 24, 2019 5:17 PM To: jaws-users-list@groups.io Subject: Re: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
Wow, this is pretty cool – who knew! I played around with this a bit & using the instructions below, different numbers create different symbols. For instance typing 2708 instead of 2713, highlighting it & hitting alt x gives you an airplane!
Sherry Wells
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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JM Casey
Cool, good to know. A lot of the places I checcked said you had to change your font to wingdings in order to get the checkmark with the standard alt code, and that just doesn’t seem like a convenient or good option for most people.
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io <jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of jyandt.martin@...
Sent: June 24, 2019 4:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@groups.io Subject: Re: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
Jm:
I also did some checking, via the wonderful world of the internet, and there is an alt code for the checkmark in MS Word 13. It is as follows:
Alt 10003. Thanks for the alternative option, though.
From: JM Casey Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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JERRY MARTIN
Mona:
Exactly which symbol were you trying to generate? I was searching for a
checkmark to denote items I already had at home for a shopping list. The code I
used as Alt 10003 and it placed it exactly I needed it to.
Jerry
From: mona
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 7:07 AM
To: jaws-users-list@groups.io
Subject: [jaws-users] ASCII COde, Please I tried playing with 2713 and 2708, selecting the numbers then typing alt x. Didn’t work. What did I do wrong? I also tried the checkmark and heavy checkmark and they did work.
Thanks in advance
Mona
Dogs have owners; cats have staff.
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io
<jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of Sherry
Wells
Wow, this is pretty cool – who knew! I played around with this a bit & using the instructions below, different numbers create different symbols. For instance typing 2708 instead of 2713, highlighting it & hitting alt x gives you an airplane!
Sherry Wells
From: jaws-users-list@groups.io
<jaws-users-list@groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey
Hey jerry.
Your question caused me to do a little bit of research. Some symbols appear to be font dependent when it comes to standard character codes; it looks like the checkmark is one of them. In other words, you will not be able to get this in the standard way using an alt code in most fonts available in Microsoft Windows. It looks like the alt code is 0252, but in most fonts, this will show up as a u diaresis (sp) symbol. There’s a neat, rather strange, way around this, which avoids having to use the symbols list or library in MS office. I tested this and it seems to work beautifully, but you may be a little bemused. Try this method. Go to where you want to insert the checkmark Type in the numbers 2713 (this is a unicode value) Now, select those numbers with your cursor. Now type in alt-x. The numbers will disappear and be replaced with a checkmark. Like so ✓
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