Microsoft KB Archive/26940

Characters That Cursor Line Draw Uses

PSS ID Number: Q26940 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00 5.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

The list below consists of the IBM Extended Character Set (ECS) characters and their decimal values, which the cursor line draw feature of Word versions 4.00 and 5.00 uses. If the characters are not available in the character set of the current formatted font, unexpected results will occur.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The following 12 characters are available to select from in the “linedraw character:” field of the Options menu.

In the following columns, the first three items are character sets used to produce the line draw effect; the remaining nine items are single characters used to produce the line draw effect (in parentheses are the ASCII decimal values in the order they appear):

Single Set Double Set Hyphen/Bar (219) ———- ———- ———-

    (177)         (176)        (250)     (248)         (220)        (223) 

The Single, Double, and Hyphen/Bar sets use different characters to produce horizontal lines, vertical lines, and corners. The following is a table listing which ASCII codes are used in each case:

Single Set Double Set Hyphen/Bar ———- ———- ———-

179 186 124 Vertical line 196 205 45 Horizontal line 218 201 43 Left upper corner 192 200 43 Left lower corner 191 187 43 Right upper corner 217 188 43 Right lower corner

Please note that if the printer does not support the IBM Extended Character set, or if the printer driver remaps these characters to other values, the line(s) will be drawn using the character assigned to these ASCII values.

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