Maxine, I'm using Windows Live Mail but I've tried your keystroke on both Windows Live Mail and also Windows Mail and it works perfectly - as you can see - ¢

Are you using Western European ISO encoding. I've never come across this problem before.

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"Maxine" <missmax2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23ERmxpzxJHA.1716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
I received several replies to this under the subject line "Using character map in Microsoft Mail" but still have had no success at correcting the problem. I really would like to solve this, so if you have any info I'd appreciate it.

Maxine

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Whenever I try to insert the ¢ character into an email message using the
keystroke (Alt+0162) I get a very small smiley face. This also happens
when trying to insert other symbols. The only way I can insert anything is
to copy and paste it into the email message. This did not happen in XP
Outlook Express.

Is there any way I fix this??

Thanks!

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