Inserting special characters in text

In the texts you write for use in Adlib, you can use special characters (possibly from other languages) which come in the character set, set up for your particular Windows installation.

The easiest way to insert a special character in a text is as follows:

1.Place the cursor in the text where you want to place the special character.
2.Open the Windows Start menu.
3.Choose Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map.
4.Make sure the Windows Character set for your language area has been set correctly. For western Europe for instance, this will have to be Windows: Western, if you want to insert the characters into an ANSI version of Adlib. If you work under Windows 2000 or XP and you have the Unicode version of Adlib you may also choose Unicode as the character set; this will allow you to choose from far more special characters, like those from languages as Hebrew, Japanese or Greek for example.
5.In this window also choose a Font, because different fonts not only display characters differently, but some fonts have more characters than others.
6.Now click the desired character, Select and Copy it, return to your document and paste the copied character.

The fastest way though, to insert special characters is through a key combination of the left Alt-key and a four digit number from the numeric keypad. Not all special characters have such shortcuts, but for example € does: Alt-0128. When you are in the Character Map utility as described above, you'll find the shortcut (if present) for a selected character in the status bar of this window, in the right corner.