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[Get Real!]

Hmmm, so when it's like -40C in Russian type winters they must be fecking boiling

Cheers

... and the Universe must go into meltdown at Absolute Zero (-270C)

-273.15 °C

I knew that, I just didn't want to appear pedantic.

What I would really love to know is how you got the degree sign . . . (I miss my work keyboard )

I'm pedantic and proud of it...

In Ms Word 2003 you can use... Insert > Symbol

[phoenix]

Hmmm, so when it's like -40C in Russian type winters they must be fecking boiling

Cheers

... and the Universe must go into meltdown at Absolute Zero (-270C)

-273.15 °C

I knew that, I just didn't want to appear pedantic.

What I would really love to know is how you got the degree sign . . . (I miss my work keyboard )

I'm pedantic and proud of it...

In Ms Word 2003 you can use... Insert > Symbol

Here's a useful site for a proud pedant . . . .

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hands74/pe ... index.html

[devil]

Degree sign? several ways:
The classic way: Start|Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Character Map, choose the sign
The simple way: type Alt-0176, using the numeric keypad
The clever way: use a programmable keyboard (this is what I do, so I have °±µ²¼½¾€£àâçéèêôîûù etc. directly typeable, as well as a standard US/Greek keyboard)

[phoenix]

The degree sign function that I was requesting, was for when you are posting on the forum . . . not in a word processing programme.

Thanks

[devil]

The degree sign function that I was requesting, was for when you are posting on the forum . . . not in a word processing programme.

Thanks

Degree sign for use in a forum? several ways:
The classic way: Start|Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Character Map, choose the sign
The simple way: type Alt-0176, using the numeric keypad
The clever way: use a programmable keyboard (this is what I do, so I have °±µ²¼½¾€£àâçéèêôîûù etc. directly typeable, as well as a standard US/Greek keyboard)

[phoenix]

The degree sign function that I was requesting, was for when you are posting on the forum . . . not in a word processing programme.

Thanks

Degree sign for use in a forum? several ways:
The classic way: Start|Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Character Map, choose the sign
The simple way: type Alt-0176, using the numeric keypad
The clever way: use a programmable keyboard (this is what I do, so I have °±µ²¼½¾€£àâçéèêôîûù etc. directly typeable, as well as a standard US/Greek keyboard)

Testing . . .

The boiling temperature of water is 100°C.
Yipeeee . . . thank you soooo much!

I used your simple way . . . thanks devil.

[devil]

Here's a useful site for a proud pedant . . . .

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hands74/pe ... index.html

Unfortunately, a proud pedant would want a site that a) had links that pedantically worked and b) used pedantically good English:

Members of the Pedantic Society are plain-speaking, ordinary people who are bemused by how many others fail in the their attempts to get us to understand about what on Earth they are talking. Sentences never seem to get finished in the spoken medium, and grammar rules seem to get largely bypassed in written medium.

Pedants NEVER use the verb to get, or so I was taught at school, and they never use the same verb thrice in the same paragraph, as I was equally instructed.

From now on, ending a sentence with a proposition is something up with which I will not put.

Nor would a pedant misquote Winston Churchill and no one who does not know the difference between a proposition and a preposition may be classed as a pedant.

A pedant is someone who tries not to deliberately split an infinitive.

[phoenix]

Here's a useful site for a proud pedant . . . .

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hands74/pe ... index.html

Unfortunately, a proud pedant would want a site that a) had links that pedantically worked and b) used pedantically good English:

Members of the Pedantic Society are plain-speaking, ordinary people who are bemused by how many others fail in the their attempts to get us to understand about what on Earth they are talking. Sentences never seem to get finished in the spoken medium, and grammar rules seem to get largely bypassed in written medium.

Pedants NEVER use the verb to get, or so I was taught at school, and they never use the same verb thrice in the same paragraph, as I was equally instructed.

From now on, ending a sentence with a proposition is something up with which I will not put.

Nor would a pedant misquote Winston Churchill and no one who does not know the difference between a proposition and a preposition may be classed as a pedant.

A pedant is someone who tries not to deliberately split an infinitive.

I think it is intended as a means to distinguish between true pedants and pretentious aspirants!

I am above all that . . .

[I'll just have another go with degrees, as I am so pleased with this new knowledge:

The freezing temperature of water is 0°C.]

Power!