
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. 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. So with this set of only 128 characters was published in 1967 as standard, containing all you need to write in English language. This code arises from reorder and expand the set of symbols and characters already used in telegraphy at that time by the Bell company.Īt 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.

Check the box against “ Use Math Autocorrect options outside Math region“.Navigate to Proofingand click AutoCorrect Options button to open Auto Correct window.Click Files → Options to open Word Options.How to enable “Use Math Autocorrect outside Math Region” To make this shortcut work outside equation, you need to do the following one time setting. Math Autocorrect feature of Ms Word gives you LaTeX type shortcut for typing equation and symbol (you may also like to see a complete list of all Math Autocorrect Shortcut). Enabling Shortcut (set it once and use it forever) If you didn’t set it earlier manually, then the chance are that it will be turned it off. This setting is turned off by default in Ms Word. However, you can use it outside equation editor also if “Use Math Autocorrect rules outsize math region” is checked in Math autocorrect options. This shortcut works only in equation editor by default.

Basically, we are using Math Autocorrect shortcut to insert ☌. There is much cooler, faster and smarter way to type ☌ symbol in Ms Word. You don’t need to perform all the laborious work of converting o to superscript or find degree symbol (°). If you have been following our blog, then you may know that typing degree symbol in Ms Word is really easy, just type \degree you get ° (see our blog on Ms Word shortcut for Degree Symbol). Although getting degree symbol can be time consuming. Most common way to write it by typing oC and then raise o as superscript or more accurate but less common is to type degree symbol (°) and then C. One of the most common unit of temperature is degree Celsius denoted as ☌.
