Jobs to do while on lockdown

[Roger W]

Just store your caving gear in that corner...

 

[Mark Wright]

where's the degree sign when you want it? Oh, right, alt zero ? that'd be 1.1855?.

Thanks for that one Fulk. I've been copying and pasting the ? sign from another document for years.

Mark

 

[Pitlamp]

I'm assuming that's for Word documents - anyone know how to do it in Libre Office Writer? (Alt zero doesn't seem to work.)

 

[Beardy]

John

try

Press Ctrl+Shift+P to make the text superscript, and Ctrl+Shift+B to make the text subscript.

https://help.libreoffice.org/3.4/Writer/Making_Text_Superscript_or_Subscript

 

[Pitlamp]

You know Beardy, I always had you down as a genius - there's now no longer any doubt.

It works!     

 

[andrewmcleod]

Strictly speaking that isn't quite the same as a degree symbol, and will look wrong in many fonts (in some an 'o' won't be a perfect circle, it may not be in the right place etc...).

I haven't got a Windows machine handy to test on (I'm assuming you are?) as it will be operating-system dependent, but you could try Alt+176 (holding Alt on the keyboard, press 0176 _on the numeric keypad_, not the normal number keys). It might be AltGr instead.

If you were really pedantic you could copy-paste the combined Unicode degree-celcius symbol ? which should have better kerning if it appears in a font you have than a degree symbol and separate capital C 

 

[mikem]

ALT 0176 = ? (windows)

 

[Laurie]

Or install 'CharMap' in a corner of your screen...

 

[pwhole]

Ahhh - my favourite app. So much fun ?