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From: "arlene" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: memo help
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 10:39:54 -0500


Here in the States one can find the 'key' with the 2 vertical lines on the
right hand side of the keyboard just above the "enter" key. You need to use
the shift + the slash key.
Arlene in FL
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From: Hugh Wilding <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: TMG-L: memo help


> Miriam Smith wrote:
>
> > where on my keyboard are two vertical lines? (for use in memo fields)
>
> I was also baffled... I don't know enough about Aussie keyboards but on
a
> UK keyboard, look to the key immediately to the left of Z. This key has
two
> symbols - the first, lower case one, is the left slash that one uses at
the
> command prompt in MS-DOS to differentiate between directories e.g.
> a:\root\first. The second, shifted symbol has what appears to be a colon
> but using hyphens instead of dots - if you type it thus - | - you should
see
> a single vertical line. You will need two of these between each memo
> element (I still remember my "supplementary" mistake of thinking that
> because the key showed TWO hyphens, this meant that there were two lines
> very close together <g>).
>
> If Aussie keyboards are different, try looking for the left slash key then
> see if the hyphen colon symbol is above it. All these symbols have
special
> names so I'm sure somebody will tells us what it is called. Also, the
ASCII
> character code if you're into using the ALT key + numerics (FWIW somehow I
> always remember that ALT + 130 is french e acute).
>
> Hugh
>
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