Ever wonder how people type words with accents or other specialty characters from a traditional keyboard? The magic answer for Windows users is the alt number sequence. A great resource on the web is http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html. It provides the key sequence, as well as where to find the symbols on your computer, when you can't remember the proper sequence. The symbols you can create
. via various sequences range from foreign accents like ?? to the traditional divide symbol ??. http://mlc.ncf.ca/characters.html#table is another resource to check out.