How to make the Cents Sign (¢)

Update 4/24/2017: You can show the ¢ in most documents (Word, Excel, Blogger) by pressing: Alt + 0162 (Note this only works if you use the number pad for the "0162", not the row of number keys across the top of your keyboard)

🍒🍒🍒

It's not straigtforward. Unsure why applications don't simply enable this more easily.

First, two alternative ways to make the Cents Sign (¢) in a document like Word:

• Hold down Ctrl, then the "/", let go and type "c" (CTRL+"/", "C"), or
• Type 00A2 and then ALT X
• I actually recorded a macro so that ALT C inputs the ¢

Or, if your computer recognizes Unicode characters:

1. On your keypad press and hold the Alt key
2. Press 1 5 5 (Note if you don't have a keypad see below. You can't use the numbers across the top row of your keyboard)
3. Let go of the Alt key: "¢" appears

If you don't have a keypad, you'll need to use the numbers that are on your keys (the ones that share a key with a letter, not the ones across the top. For example my "J" can also be a "1"). Generally this is done by something like this:

1. Press the Num Lock key (Num Lk) to turn on your number pad.
2. Once the numberpad is active, follow the 3 steps above.
3. Be sure to tap your Num Lock key again to turn off number pad when you're done.

If that doesn't work, you'll need to simply cut/paste: CTRL+C the text you want to copy e.g. ¢, then CTRL+V to paste into your document.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. This post has been scraped in violation of that license if you are reading this post on other than http://www.digital-qa.blogspot.com/.