How do you type a half?

[MonkeyLover 10]

OK, I know I'm really thick, but................ I haven't got a "half" symbol on my laptop! I know there is a way to type it, but how?

[scotsman1976 10]

On the likes of word and so forth typing 1/2, will automatically turn it into a prober half symbol.

[sixriver 10]

turn the num lock on so it is using the numbers that appear on some of the letter keys then hold the ALT key and type 171 and release the ALT key

 

See http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/altchrc.html for all the characters available

[Phanerothyme 12]

½ is the character returned by Alt + 0189 in Windows.

[scottishdude 10]

½ cool

[Meaks 11]

½

............

[ASPGuru 10]

Shouldn't we be all Euro and metricated and use 0.5?

Works on any keyboard without all this Alt stuff?

[carling 10]

This has nothing to do with metric or Euro.

[Greybeard 10]

In Windows use Character Map - Start>Run, type charmap click OK.

 

Just select, copy and paste the special character you need

 

¼ ½ ¾ æ é © ¢ §...etc.

[MonkeyLover 10]

Aw! thank you to you all. Still can't do it though! (well, on an email or the forum anyway).

to sixriver - I tried to do your method, but as soon as I pressed the ALT - the cursor disappeared!

 

to meaks an scottishdude - how did YOU do it?

 

I told you I was a bit thick!

[terminator 10]

A HALF ½ just cut and paist that on sumat and save it if you cant do it