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Brief History of ASCII code: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII code, was created in 1963 by the 'American Standards Association' Committee or 'ASA', the agency changed its name in 1969 by 'American National Standards Institute' or 'ANSI' as it is known since. This code arises from reorder and expand the set of symbols and characters already used in telegraphy at that time by the Bell company. At first only included capital letters and numbers, but in 1967 was added the lowercase letters and some control characters, forming what is known as US-ASCII, ie the characters 0 through 127. So with this set of only 128 characters was published in 1967 as standard, containing all you need to write in English language. In 1981, IBM developed an extension of 8-bit ASCII code, called 'code page 437', in this version were replaced some obsolete control characters for graphic characters. Also 128 characters were added, with new symbols, signs, graphics and latin letters, all punctuation signs and characters needed to write texts in other languages, such as Spanish.
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In this way was added the ASCII characters ranging from 128 to 255. IBM includes support for this code page in the hardware of its model 5150, known as 'IBM-PC', considered the first personal computer.
The operating system of this model, the 'MS-DOS' also used this extended ASCII code. Almost all computer systems today use the ASCII code to represent characters and texts. How to use the ASCII code: Without knowing it you use it all the time, every time you use a computer system, but if all you need is to get some of the characters not included in your keyboard should do the following, for example: How typing: Lowercase letter Mu; micro sign or micron?. WINDOWS: on computers with Windows operating system like Windows 8, Win 7, Vista, Windows XP, etc. To get the letter, character, sign or symbol 'µ': ( Lowercase letter Mu; micro sign or micron ) on computers with Windows operating system: 1) Press the 'Alt' key on your keyboard, and do not let go.
2) While keep press 'Alt', on your keyboard type the number '230', which is the number of the letter or symbol 'µ' in ASCII table. 3) Then stop pressing the 'Alt' key, and.you got it!
By Inserting symbols and unusual characters to your document is easy with Office 2011 for Mac. Symbols for foreign languages, math and science, currency, and so on, are quickly accessible in Office 2011 for Mac. Just position your insertion cursor (the blinking vertical bar) where you want the symbol inserted in your document and then use one of the following tools to browse the symbols in your Mac’s font collections:. The Symbols tab of the Media browser is a quick, easy way to get at the most popular symbols. In Microsoft Word, you can choose Insert→Symbol→Advanced Symbol to display a more advanced symbol browser.
Inserting symbols quickly with Media browser in Office 2011 for Mac The Symbols tab of the Media browser contains only popular symbols, fractions, mathematical signs, and even some music notations. This is a quick, easy-to-use tool. Simply click a symbol, and it’s inserted as text into your document at the insertion cursor’s position.
A pop-up menu lets you filter the symbols. Drag the slider at the bottom to adjust the symbol preview size. Using the Advanced Symbol tool in Word 2011 for Mac Within Microsoft Word is a feature that people switching from PC to Mac will find familiar. You display the Symbol dialog by choosing Insert→Symbol→Advanced Symbol. The basic operation is simple: Choose a symbol and then either click the Insert button or double-click the symbol. You find two tabs: Symbols and Special Characters. Inserting from the Symbols tab in Office 2011 applications The Symbols tab offers a grid-based preview of symbols contained in the font selected in the Font pop-up menu.
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When you click a symbol, the description area updates and displays the font’s ASCII number and Unicode character number, which you can ignore if you don’t know what that means. If you’ve assigned a keyboard shortcut to a particular symbol, the shortcut is displayed in the Description area.
To insert a symbol, select it in the grid and click the Insert button. Inserting special characters in Word 2011 The Special Characters tab of the Symbol dialog has a list of frequently used characters and displays the built-in keyboard shortcuts for those characters in Word. To insert a special character, select it from the list and click the Insert button.