how do you put degrees celsius on pages

Oops! Just switched over from the Numbers discussions. Revised to remove custom formatting.

For Pages, typs shift-option-8 to get the degree sign. 100°C is typed 100 then shift-option-8 then shift-C

Regards,

Barry

Hi Tecgeek,

Type lower case o, then select it.

Format > Font > Baseline > Superscript

25^oC

Oops, this editor did not show it properly. Here it is from Pages:

Regards,

Ian.

Message was edited by: Yellowbox: Added screenshot from Pages

Barry wrote:

You could also try option-0 (zero):

Shift Option 8 is correct for degree. Option zero is the masculine ordinal indicator. Best not to use it, as some fonts will put a line undernearth it.

You could also try option-0 (zero): 100ºC for a degree symbol slightly larger than the one obtained with shift-option-8.

Regards,

Barry

Thanks for the clarification, Tom.

I had seen a hint on using option-0 some time ago, but didn't check out what the actual character was for that keystroke combination. Option-8 it is then.

@ Fruhulda:

Canadian (English)—essentially the same as the US layout, but changes the flag in the menu bar.

On the Swedish layout, these three produce small circles when shoft-option is added: å˚ q° kº. Shift-option-Q looks like the degree symbol.

Regards,

Barry

Odd.. I checked all three (Swedish, Swedish Pro and Swedish Sami - PC), and none of them had the section mark( § ) in that position (or in any other position without adding a modifier key). On all three, the section mark was at option-6, the same location as the Canadian English layout.

Back to the topic at hand, though...

Looing for the section mark, I came across another useful character—the Character Viewer shows ℃ as a single character (also ℉ for anyone still on that scale).

Tecgeek could set up an auto-replacement character substitution using that single character version. He should be aboe to copy the character from this message.

Regards,

Barry

Barry wrote:

I came across another useful character—the Character Viewer shows ℃ as a single character (also ℉ for anyone still on that scale).

I don't think anyone actually uses these -- they are in Unicode for compatibility with some old Chinese/Japanese character sets.

Barry wrote:

Odd.. I checked all three (Swedish, Swedish Pro and Swedish Sami - PC), and none of them had the section mark( § ) in that position

In Europe the keyboard is different than in N. America. It has an extra key at the bottom left and so some characaters will be at different places than where you see them with Keyboard Viewer when you have a US keyboard. The latter is called ANSI, the European version is called ISO.

You're welcome. Thanks for the tick.

Ian.

Screenshot from Pages:

I like the look of shift-option-8

Ian.

Guys, you need to tell which keyboard layout you are referring to!

fruhulda wrote:

Guys, you need to tell which keyboard layout you are referring to!

Thanks for the reminder! These have been for the US layout.

Barry thank you. It is right but the swedish keyboard has Shift + § (key left to number 1) which will give the same result.