Degree sign on a lap top-how?

[hotspur (Chris)]

Was told hold Alt key down and type 2 4 8 keys-friend gets it to work,but not so on my Lenovo.

Thought there would be plenty of helpful pointers on a science site,so thought I'd ask here. Thanks

[StuTodd]

On a PC, hold down the Alt key and on the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard, type 0176, or Alt+ 248.

When you release the Alt Key, a ° should be there. °° yeah, works fine...°°

Stu

[Nikolas (Nik)]

35º
Hold the alt key then 0
Works on here

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Mine is a mac

[raymo]

Mine's really interesting; if I do alt 0176 the number that I have entered
disappears. If I do the 35o I get a circumflex instead of the degree sign,
and if do the alt 248 I get a right angle which looks like a small upper
case letter L.????
raymo

[RickS (Rick)]

Just web surf to a page with a degree sign, copy & paste

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by RickS

Just web surf to a page with a degree sign, copy & paste

That's cheating

[Kunama]

For anyone on iPad just hold down the zero key till option pops up and then simply slide to the option you want.......

iMac ...... Option U then zero

[CJ (Chris)]

Isn't it font dependent? The character map used to be easily accessible. God knows where it is nowadays! (yes, I'm a grumpy old git fed up with things being "fixed")

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Or you could save yourself the trouble and simply type deg or degree. As long as people understand what you mean, that's all that matters.

[pixelsaurus (Mike)]

Originally Posted by CJ

Isn't it font dependent? The character map used to be easily accessible. God knows where it is nowadays! (yes, I'm a grumpy old git fed up with things being "fixed")

On Win 10 go to Start, All Programs, Windows Accessories and then Character Map.

[RAJAH235]

Just a quick FWIW...
If you're running Firefox, there's an extension called "abcTajpu" that contains a heap of "optional" characters, including the "º" character.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Another way on a Mac is to push Control, Command and Space. This brings up a menu with a LOT of stuff to choose from §(looks awesome) ⦿(refers to Solar Mass in astrophysics)

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by StuTodd

On a PC, hold down the Alt key and on the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard, type 0176, or Alt+ 248.

When you release the Alt Key, a ° should be there. °° yeah, works fine...°°

Stu

Thanks Stu.
(Good question Chris)
I have been wondering about that for some time now myself.
151°
w°°h°°
[Medion all-in-one PC running Windows 10]

[astroron (Ron)]

This may be of interest?
I use it all the time.
Cheers

[PCH (Paul)]

Originally Posted by astroron

This may be of interest?
I use it all the time.
Cheers

Awesome Ron, thanks for sharing!

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Download cputemp and have an icon in your task bar telling you the temp all the time?

Nah.

[N1 (Mirko)]

Originally Posted by astroron

This may be of interest?
I use it all the time.
Cheers

Ron, excellent post!

[sheeny (Al)]

I use the Alt codes all the time. A couple more that aren't on Ron's chart:

Alt 0181 µ (micro)
Alt 0248 ø (diameter)

Al.

[Kunama]

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