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6 Tips for Adding International Characters and Symbols to Your Document

whitepaper If one is having trouble finding the symbol or character one is looking for, tip 1 in the paper shows how to locate characters in the Symbol dialog box, and tip 2 provides additional information about inserting international characters.

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Insert a Symbol or Special Character

whitepaper The user can use the Symbol dialog box to insert symbols, such as ΒΌ and, or special characters, such as an em dash (-) or ellipsis (&) that are not on the keyboard, as well as Unicode characters. The types of symbols and characters that one can...

Tags: word processing

[03 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 23.09.05

Round-Up cites the choice of "media and content, including the Crazy Frog character, that is targeted at the 16-34 age consumer group". Apparently the attack slowed things down to a Roy Keane-esque hobble for a while but at no point did they go down like...

Tags: round-up

[23 Sep 2005]

Microsoft plans 'black box' for Windows

News In the consumer environment, you will be presented with a dialogue that clearly gives you the choice whether to share the information and then also provides exactly what the detail is so you can parse character by character what's being sent.

Tags: crash, black box, windows, microsoft

[26 Apr 2005]

My first computer: The ZX Spectrum

News So if your blue on black character walked across a red background, either the background had to go blue or he had to go red. The only comfort in a world on the brink of nuclear annihilation was a small black box about the size of a video cassette...

Tags: zx spectrum

[11 Jan 2005]

Spam and data protection: know the law and take precautions

Comment The directive enshrines consumers' rights to privacy in a legal framework and forces marketers to provide an opt-out mechanism every time they contact an individual with a marketing message - even in a 160 character SMS.

[10 Dec 2003]

WM97/Dig-A (Sophos)

whitepaper All rights reserved" and adds an AutoCorrect entry to automatically change text so that every occurrence of "," is replaced by a character string. If the current hour equals the current minute, the virus displays the message box "Copyright 1999 by dd!

Tags: virus, automatically, word, message

[14 Aug 2003]

Technologies That Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum

Technologies That Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum

News So if your blue on black character walked across a red background, either the background had to go blue or he had to go red. The only comfort in a world on the brink of nuclear annihilation was a small black box about the size of a video cassette...

[14 Jan 2002]

German judicial system: A D@B hand at contradiction

German judicial system: A D@B hand at contradiction

News The judges justified their decision by saying that the special character does not conform to the name function as set out in the code of commercial law. As a pictorial character, it has no spoken function.

[06 Apr 2001]

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