Off topic but I need help, quick help

[Thrifty Angler]

Let's keep this fishing related. I want to go fishing tonight. First I have to help my son with algebra. So.......

I need to make a < with a_ under it. Basically I need to underline a "less than" sign. Can someone tell me how to do it on a computer?

Thanks in advance :)

[Kajun]

hmmm got me...i dont think it can be done unless you have a special keyboard....actually..i really dont know lol

[FL FISHERMAN]

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[Thrifty Angler]

that makes 2 of us. Thanks for the smile. I needed that. Algebra, uuuugh.:barf:

[Kajun]

fisherman did it!...ok..how did ya do that? lol

[Thrifty Angler]

Care to explain how you did that?:p

[FL FISHERMAN]

Its a secret;) but all you have to do now is copy it and paste it where you want it.:D

[Thrifty Angler]

You're loving this huh Jason?

[Thrifty Angler]

:jawdrop: :rolleyes:

Thanks. I owe you one. Now if I can only stop laughing my @$$ off!

[FL FISHERMAN]

:p I did it right here on the board. All you have to do is hit the underline(U) button right next to the (B)and(I) and then put the (<) sign in and it will automatically underline it. Also on Microsoft Word just hit the underline button on top and then type whatever you need underlined and it will automatically do it. Then all you have to do is cut and paste it to wherever you want it. :D

[Kajun]

it wont copy and paste

[FL FISHERMAN]

It mean less than or equal to in Algebra. :jawdrop: Mine will let me copy and paste it.:cool:

[Thrifty Angler]

It worked, sorta. After copying and pasting it, everything else I type on the same line is automatically underlined.

BTW: Next time I see that FL FISHERMAN is online I will put on a depends before I ask a question.

You ok Kajun?

Thanks Jason.

[FL FISHERMAN]

LMAO:D Right after you type the sign hit the underline key again and it will turn it off.

[Thrifty Angler]

I omly needed one thing underlined. Oh my!:jawdrop:

Don't think I'll use Microsoft Works for this. That sounds like English to me. I'm taking one subject only on today. That's Math.

Thanks again Jason.:cool:

[Thrifty Angler]

I misspelled "only." Maybe I do need that English refresher today.:rolleyes:

[Thrifty Angler]

Sandflea's offline. Sure hope he doesn't read this thread. We might just get kicked to the curb.:D :p

[Thrifty Angler]

I hate to bother you..........but can you do that with the > this time?:D

Thanks

[FL FISHERMAN]

> There you go!:D

[Thrifty Angler]

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/webmath/inequalities.html. They even had the signs there in multiple choice form.

I know what you're probably thinking. But don't tell my son I don't know squat about Algebra. Looks like I will be crash coursing myself thru his first year of high school.:D

Thanks for all the help Jason.

[FL FISHERMAN]

No problem sounds like your son is a pretty good math guy. I stopped taking math after my sophmore year when I finished Calculus. I loved Math but it was really starting to hurt my brain.:rolleyes: That was 10 yrs ago! All that stuff is in the back of my brain stored for later use....maybe one day it will come out again:D

[Thrifty Angler]

say about the time your kids enter high school.;)

The way I figure it, you have a decade before then to brush up.

[jedi_angler]

If you want to do the "greater than or equal to" (or "less than") in Microsoft Word (I'm assuming you don't want the HTML version - that's how it's done on this site), then follow my lead:

In Word 2000, choose Symbol from the Insert menu. (Across the top there is a "menu bar" that has stuff on it like "File" "Edit" "View" "Format" etc. Click on the one that says "Insert", then select the item called "Symbol").

A dialogue box pops up with a whole bunch of symbols that might come in handy for your sons math class. On that dialogue box, make sure that the drop down list called Font is on "(normal text)" and the "Subset" drop down list says "Mathematical Operators".

Click (once) on the one you want and click the Insert button. It will then show up in your document. You can do a Copy and Paste anytime you want to put it somewhere else later (highlight the symbol by dragging your mouse over it while holding down the left mouse button and then letting go of the button after the thing you want to copy is highlighted, then select Copy from the Edit menu. Go to where you want to put it, then select Paste from the Edit menu.

[Thrifty Angler]

that sounds like just what we need. Only thing is I have to locate Microsoft WOrd. I'm running XP. I see works...with all the sub stuff of Works. Still looking for Words. The search goes on.:eek:

[FL FISHERMAN]

Yeah what Jedi said.;) I am not computer literate enough to know how to do that. I just improvised. Don't forget I am military and that is all we do.:rolleyes:

[Thrifty Angler]

Seems Word 2000 is part of Works Suite, which isn't standard preinstalled. So the search continues............just in case it's hiding somewhere.:mad:

[inawe]

somptns fishy round here :D

[Thrifty Angler]

I know about that improvising. Had to do some of that while in basic in hot SC. Had only half a tent and had to prop it up against a tree, way back near the woods. Just so it would look good, at least from a distance. Wasn't funny at all when we had to sleep under half a tent. Snakes were in them there woods. Darn ants so large you could see their eyes when they were on the ground and I was sitting in a chair.:eek: Still have a few leftover scars from ant bites.:mad:

[Thrifty Angler]

Where's a fly swatter when you need one!:mad:

[jedi_angler]

Works includes a word processor, so this function might be in that part of Works. Look around in there to see if there's a similar menu item ("Insert").

Like you said, Works Suite includes Word 2000, but not Works 7.

It's gonna be tough trying to get by just with Works I think.

(When I was at Quantico I don't think there was such a thing as Word....)

[Thrifty Angler]

Saw insert. No symbol though. Did click on "Special Character" and found Egyptian type stuff under "symbols. Also some math stuff under special characters...... such as ½, ¾. gotta work on that symbol list. Can't get anything to copy and paste correctly from the symbols list.... 䩪³_[W@Ûâ
But to sum it all up.................


Found it!

Thanks jedi.

[jedi_angler]

I think you're at the beginning of a long, beautiful affair with computers.... :)

Soon enough, I guarantee your boy will be teaching you!

(My 8 year old daughter does stuff on a computer I have no idea how she figured out, or how she does it for that matter....)

[Thrifty Angler]

Sure am looking forward to that long beautiful affair cause this nightmare called Algebra just keeps on lurking in the background. Need that balance.

I totally agree with the kid teaching the parent thing. I'll put him to work on that tomorrow. I need an Algebra break.

The kids do learn young. COmputers, the best thing since color tv.

Thanks again for the time you spent helping me work this out.:cool:

[inawe]

I found my fly swatter this aint a teaching class of homework , im catchn fish not grades . :p