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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob Chavez
    I love this idea....Very helpful. Often times I need a degrees symbol, or an on center symbol. They're all there.

    So, I'm trying the Unicode format (using alt + unicode number) and it won't seem to work. For instance when I pull up charmap and go to Arial font, the symbol for "on center" is 0424. (at the bottom of the charmap application it says "U+0424 Cryllic Capital Letter Ef" I suppose this means its unicode format is 0424. But try it, alt+0424 yields a square. Give it a try.

    Any ideas why?

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    At the bottom RIGHT shows keystroke. Example "±" shows U+00B1: Plus Minus Sign at the LEFT and Keystroke: ALt+0177 at the RIGHT.

    That should do it.

    Until Revit supports these signs we could put together a simple list of the most often used signs. What signs do you use most often?

    I am using Arial and here is a start...
    Degree "°" alt + 0176
    Plus Minus "±" alt + 0177
    Diameter "Ø" alt + 0216
    ???
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    For this particular symbol Ф down on the right side it doesn't give a keystroke option Alt+ ....

    One symbol I use a lot is the diameter symbol Ø

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    What version of Windows are you using? I recently upgraded from Win 98 to Win 2000 and the character map pop up display has changed. It no longer displays the ASCII codes, just Unicode. Another Microsoft "improvement" I guess.

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    I am using XP pro. I have attached an image of my charactor map.
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    I have XP Pro with the latest updates here's an image of my chart, as you can see there is no keystroke option for this symbol.
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    I did a little more poking around. It appears to be symbol dependent. Some don't appear to have ASCII codes attached to them. If there is an ASCII code it does appear just like in Jim's screeen shot but otherwise you get nothing like in Henry's screen shot. I don't know if the font creator did not include the codes in the font definitions or if they do not exist for some symbols or some other mystical reason. Doesn't seem to be any pattern.

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    Understood, not all of the symbols have a keystroke code. I don't know what to tell you on that particular symbol.

    Excuse the ignorance, what do you use that symbol for?
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    Yeah, it doesn't look like there's a keystroke for this symbol. I use this symbol for "on center" ie. 2x4 studwall 16" Ф. Guess it's the copy and paste method. Unless anyone has any other ideas.

    Thanks everyone,

    JC

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    Isn't that more appropriate for "diameter" than "O.C."?

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    Is that what it's used for? Heh, guess I'm looking pretty green, eh? Since I started here, we just use O.C. and that seems pretty standard, but I thought there was a symbol for it too. Is there?

    Anyway, charmap is definatley a handy tool. I'm sure I'll find that it will come in handy from time to time.

    JC

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