Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

[Robert Lauriston]

Can you get the symbol in Word?

This site might help:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221e/index.htm

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Fei Min Lorente
<FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com> wrote:
> I'm working in FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7 and I cannot insert the infinity
> symbol. According to the FrameMaker character set documentation, it is
> Unicode 221E, but perhaps all that information is obsolete now. In any case,
> I tried holding down Alt while I pressed +221e, and all I got was the Edit
> menu. I can't find a keyboard shortcut for it. I resorted to getting the
> symbol in Word and copying and pasting it into FrameMaker, but seriously, is
> that what I have to do? Or do I have to create an equation and insert the
> symbol?
>
>
>
> My colleague is also working in FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7 and she can't use
> the keyboard shortcuts (such as ctrl-q shift-8 to get a TM symbol). She gets
> other characters instead. She's resorted to copying and pasting from Word,
> and those all work except for the infinity symbol. All the information I've
> found on the internet has been for FrameMaker 7 or older. Can anyone tell me
> what to do for FrameMaker 10?
>
>
>
> Fei Min Lorente
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