Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? (Side Track)

[Carol]

bboyminn wrote:
> 
> For your convenience- 
> 
> To type the '£' Pound sign, hold down the ALT key and press 0163 on
the numeric keypad.
> 
> For the EURO '€' hold down the ALT key and press 0128.
> 
> For the CENT '¢' hold down the ALT key and press 0162.
> 
> For the Japanese Yen '¥' hold down the ALT key and press 0165.
> 
> This has been a FREE Public Service Announcement. 

Carol responds:

Interesting! Just out of curiosity, how did you learn all this and do
you keep a list of these codes, or whatever they're called, beside
your keyboard?

If I needed to type a pound sign, I would probably just cut and paste
it from the Internet, like so: £ (I'm seeing if this works!)

I tried to do it from Word but couldn't figure out what the Help menu
was talking about, not to mention that a link I tried to follow didn't
work because some ActiveX control ostensibly wasn't installed
properly. (You'd think that the pound and Euro symbols would be
included in the Insert menu's symbols section. Maybe they are in Word
2007, but I have Word 2000.)

BTW, Yahoo won't let me use your method. I tried to do a cent sign,
which would be useful to me as an American, and all I got was a Plink!
Plink! Plink! sound warning me that what I was trying to do was either
impossible or prohibited. I tried it in Word and got no results at
all--no Plink! but nothing on the screen, either. 

Just wondering what program you're using that will allow these macros
or whatever they are. Maybe they're preset on your particular computer?

Carol, who has only a vague idea what a macro is and no idea how to
set one up