How to make the cent symbol (¢) in Windows
Darryl: “Marc, no one seems to know the answer to this one, so Sync is my last hope! How do you create the cent sign, that little “c” with a vertical line through it, in an email or in Word?”
Darryl: "Marc, no one seems to know the answer to this one, so Sync is my last hope! How do you create the cent sign, that little "c" with a vertical line through it, in an email or in Word?"
Great question, Darryl, and you’re not the first person to ask me how to create the cent symbol (¢) in Windows, believe it or not.
Here’s how to do it with a keyboard shortcut:
Hold down either of the ALT keys, and using your computer keyboard’s numeric pad on the right-hand side, type "0162" (without the quotes) and then let go of the ALT key. Now you’ll see the symbol for cent — ¢ — at your flashing cursor. Weird, huh?
Before I figured this out (and don’t ask me where I learned this) I used to do a Google search for "cent symbol" and then cut and paste the symbol into my Word document!
New to the whole, " World Wide Web", thing. So, I guess I'm off to a great starting point.
worked great for me!!
thx
This is not new
This is very basic
You used the ASCII Code
Nope, there is no ASCII code for the cent symbol.
Hello Marc,
Just thought you'd like to know, that this is all available via the character map in Windows, you click on START, goto Programs, goto Accessories, and then goto System Tools and choose Character Map, you click on and symbol you want and 90% of the time you'll get your ALT+number combination in the bottom right corner.
SensFan
Actually when you do the ALT+0162 in Word the symbol apears more as a c with a tiny bar at the top and bottom.
And in Microsoft Office 2007, you can actually add that symbol by going to the Insert tab and selecting Add Symbol.
So no need to remember the ALT and numbers following it.
Yes every symbol has an alt-key shortcut, but another way to get a symbol in word is Insert –> Symbol. ¢ It is near the British pound and yen sign, in the middle of the list. This is useful for lots of other helpful symbols if you dont know the alt code (including special characters for other languages, mathematical operators, etc).
Yea, that dont work either. Tried it on my Toshiba Satellite Pro and got nadda. So it's back to using Office's insert symbol for me.
It doesn't always work on laptops. If they don't have the numeric keypad I've found that it doesn't always work
Try the character map. It'simpler. Larie.
Shift+0 o the numaric pad :)
BTW, the ₵haracter map can be found under SYSTEM TOOLS. Larie.
In 2007, press 'Insert' – 'Symbol'. Sellect the 'Cent' symbol in whichever font you like.
Go to Start, Acessories, System Tools, Character Map and you'll have the letters and signs you want and in all the different fonts… Their alternate key shows in the corner when you select the character. You can either select copy or use the alt+0162 in your document.
Or instead of having all this grief, you could use a Mac and press alt $ and the ¢ symbol appears from the keyboard…
(the keyboard may have the Alt key labeled "Option" instead of Alt just in case you need this info…)
We’re not all as superior as you are, Bob. Some of us haven’t seen the light of day yet, and we still use Windows. But I doubt anyone is going to switch platforms to make a symbol “easier”. I’m just sayin’ …
You can also go into start menu, accessories, system tools, character map and access symbols such as the cent symbol.
ALT+1062 produces the "&" symbol in Word, not the cent sign!
alt + 1062 worked perfectly for me in Outlook. Thanks for the info!
ALT+1062 produces the "&" symbol in Word, not the cent sign!
Its Alt + 0162, not Alt + 1062… it comes in handy even if it is basic…
thanks,
You can also insert a cent sign and many other useful symbols by using the 'character map'. To find the character map, go to the 'start menu', 'all programs', then 'accessories', then 'system tools' -choose character map. Select the font, and the character you want, copy, then paste.
Try (simultaneously) "ctrl, alt, $", I've found that will display the ¢ symbol.
Alt + 0162 = ¢ and Alt + 1602 = B are of course different. They are different numbers. You can do them in this very box as well as anywhere on a computer. I use Alt + 0167 = § a lot. I just did it. How about Alt + 0180 = ´ for doing times like 60´ (sixty minutes). Yes – these are the only way we used to get these symbols into a document back in the CPU 8088 days…orange, black or green screens and commandline everything – including programs like Wordstar, etc. These symbols were a "Must Know" thing if you wanted to be typist of any sort such as Legal Secretary. Experiment or download a copy of a document you can read from. They're everywhere in the computer world.
It's quicker just to go to "insert" "symbol" and choose the "cent" symbol.