Here’s one for the typists.....

I often need to use this symbol | (not sure what it’s called).

On the keyboard I’m using now, this symbol is one of 3 on the same key. Does anyone know which key combination one should use to access the | symbol on that key (it’s the bottom right symbol of the 3).

The symbol (|) has various names that refer to differing, yet sometimes related semantics: One of the more popular names is the Sheffer stroke, though often referred to as a pipe (by the Unix community) and vertical bar, verti-bar, vbar[citation needed], vertical line or divider line by others.

Broken bar (¦) is a separate character.

The typical keyboard layout used in the United Kingdom features separate keys for vertical bar and broken bar; however, typically on Windows PCs the vertical bar key produces a broken-bar symbol and vice versa. North American keyboards typically have a key bearing a broken-bar symbol, which produces a vertical bar.
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Um, thanks for the info, but it doesn't help me with the key combination

e.g. if there were only 2 symbols on that key (as on my old keyboard), I'd use the Shift key with that key to get the bar symbol. But with 3 symbols on that key, when I use the Shift key with that key I get this symbol ¬ (top left of the 3). I assume I need to hold another key down at the same time as Shift to get the bar symbol, but have tried every key combination I can think of. Obviously, it's not urgent, as I am copy and pasting it | | but t'would be useful to be able to 'type' it on this silly keyboard

Alt Gr + that key



= ¦


Is that what you ment?
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Thats what I meant but I forgot to add it to my post..........sorry

AltGr
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I use shift and the key with \ on it to get it, even though | isn't on that key!
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| ASCII code
or
alt+124 excel

Alt+Shift changes azerty to qwerty which, like on my board gives access to the figure you want,but maybe is another button...
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^^from above

ASCII code is this with out the spaces inbetween:

& # 124 ;
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as mentioned in previous posts:

if the alt gr does not work, then do you have a "Fn" button?
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Keyboards differ as you know so try this:

SHIFT+ALT[azerty>qwerty]

SHIFT+ same button you circled in red or
SHIFT+ button with these symbols:<>\

SHIFT+ALT[qwerty>azerty]
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and thanks for the recovery link earlier.
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