Not Very Technical!

[Pollypeptide]

This is not very technical for you clever folk who understand computers etc but I am a bit of a dummy where such things are concerned. On my keyboard there is a key on the top left which has ` and ¬, which I can access in the usual way, as you can see. But it also has a third symbol, a vertical, straight line - hw do I access this please?

Many thanks for your help.

[EcclesCake]

Ctl Alt and the key.

[andrew1707]

try ctrl/alt and then the button.

[andrew1707]

bah ...too late

[bibblebub]

use the Alt Gr key to the right of the space bar - ¦

that key also gives you a foreign accents when used with some letters

[jno]

coltrol+alt? Actualy gives me a split line ¦¦

[spotit3]

Thanks for that tip about accents, Bibblebub, very handy! I didn't know that and always spend ages looking through the symbols.

[ChuckFickens]

¦¦ is what you are meant to get from that key....

And CTRL+ALT is exactly the same as AltGr, it's just two ways of getting the same result.

[Pollypeptide]

Hey you people are very fast at answering - thank you very much.
Yes, I can see that this key gives you ¦ , so how would I get a straight vertical line, like that indicated on that key? I need it for a password that I have been sent to access a particular website and they have definitely got a single, straight, vertical line! I even copied it and englarged it so I could see it clearly as it was a bit small for my failing eyesight in the e-mail. Any ideas? Perhaps I should just ask them for another password.

[Davethedog]

On the key it shows the broken line - if you want straight vertical its next to the shift key on the backslash button.

[jomifl]

slightly interestingly, my aspire 7540 has these key markings interchanged so that | gives a ¦ and ¦ gives a | confusing or what?

[jno]

as Pollypeptide says, the key has a | on it, not a ¦ at all. At least, mine does; presumably Davethedog's doesn't.

[montyblanc]

Ctrl & Alt then the key shows as ¦

similar to trl & alt & 4 produces €

[jomifl]

jno, should we send them all back?

[montyblanc]

I need to check to see if anyone has answered these questions before me LOL.

[jno]

the way I see it, it's not my computer key that's wrong, it's all the rest of the internet.

[ummmm]

|

[chrissa1]

¦``¦¦¦¦¦¦¬¬¬¬¬ You learn something new every day.

[janzman]

Following on from this question on my keyboard going from the space bar right is AltGr then a key with a small blue square with the capital letters FN,can any one tell me what this key is.

[ChuckFickens]

It enables the alternative functions (marked in blue) on certain keys on your laptop keyboard, such as volume up/down screen brightness etc.

It would have been covered in the manual when you got the laptop.

[AliceTickband]

^^^^

how could it have been read if it was covered......(feeble attempt at humour there)