+ibycus Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Kind of funny. In my limited experience, Degrees minutes and seconds are actually a more common format to express coordinates in than Degrees Decimal minutes. I don't think I've ever seen Degrees decimal minutes outside of geocaching.... Actually I normally write in the 'foot' sign in my coordinates anyways, just to avoid confusion (N 36°20.506' W082° 12.723'). Never noticed before now that it wasn't on the gc.com pages... To get the degree sign, hold down the ALT key on your keyboard, and type in 248 on your number pad (assuming you're not running a Mac). On a notebook at can be a little tricky (with mine I hold down Fn-ALT and type in 248) Quote Link to comment
+VegasCacheHounds Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 BTW, hold down the "ALT" key and then hit "0176" on the keypad to make the ° symbol. Just make sure to use the keypad to the right of the keyboard, not the numbers along the top. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I can never remember the right way to do it, so I choose the ° symbol in Word and just paste it into my message. Quote Link to comment
+ibycus Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I guess 0176 is the unicode... I always use the ASCII codes, comes from my days in French immersion. 130, 136, 135, 133, 144 were the 'codes to know'. You can actually generate any character you like with this manner. So if you have a stuck key on your keyboard, you can temporarily live without it (A is a 065, or 10000000 in binary). Quote Link to comment
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