how to insert a symbol for squared metres

[alexandrovo]

i have recently started a real estate agency in bulgaria, and cannot find a
symbol for squared metres on my computer. when i type it in it comes out as
m2 or M2 which does not look right. please help

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

The symbol for meter is M. If you need the 2, use a superscript font.

 

[Ed Bennett]

The symbol for meter is M. If you need the 2, use a superscript font.

No, the symbol for metre is m. There is a difference

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

I'm more accustomed to the government's abbreviation standard. All caps, no
punctuation unless it could be misread.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

HEY! I personally represent that statement!

 

[Ed Bennett]

I'm more accustomed to the government's abbreviation standard. All
caps, no punctuation unless it could be misread.

Ah, once again it seems it's a case of the US government completely ignoring
the body of scientific standards.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

ROTFLMAO!

What can I say? I've done work for the government and there is a standard
that covers the proper abbreviation for darned near everything. It used to
be a military standard but now it's a commercial industry standard. Old
habits dies hard. I can appreciate where Ed is coming from but when the use
of proper abbreviations are part of your job (one that puts food in your
mouth and pays the rent), you play by the company's rules.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

HEADLINE: Judge Jo rules all CAPS, top ACLU lawyer Ed screams
discrimination!

WOW! Supreme Court Judge JoAnn has ruled in disfavor of the US Government
and ACLU lawyer Ed lashes out. Congress is out to lunch. Congresswoman
Hillary Rotten Clinton has a mushroom (all caps) soufflé. <G>

The only all CAPs requirement (known to this ol soul), then it's a wish
for compliance is the USPS's desire for all CAPs sans punctuation (except
a - within the ZIPZ+4) on mailing addresses and then with legible fonts.
(USPS Pub 25 & 28).

--
Don
"Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

But when you are working for a company that uses government standards, you
play by their rules, regardless of what else is out there. Generally
speaking the government does not use SI units. I'm not saying it's right or
wrong, I'm saying I play by the company's rules. And I've done it that way
for longer than Ed is old. And now that I think about it - longer than YOU
are old. ;-)

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

S

Did you see how they failed to spell the words litre and metre correctly..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

They had more sense..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user







in message Maybe, but they didn't set up shop.

 

[Ed Bennett]

So they /don't/ use metres, litres, kilogrammes, grammes,
milligrammes, centimetres, millimetres, millilitres, etc, then? I
thought you just said they did. Make up your bloody mind!

They don't use metres, they use meters ;o)

(It was obvious what she meant, wasn't it?)

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Don

I was told that they landed on the beach, walked up to the trees and saw a
wooden signed nailed up which read "Defence D'Entrer"

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

Recent unearthed findings substitute that Olie the Viking and his band of
lutefisk warriors got their maps at Giglioni's Map Shop. And, when they
did arrive at Grapeland, on the beach was a sign reading, "Vi mando un
saluto di benvenuto!". Who do you think planted all those grapes?!

Ciao,

Donato

 

[Chuck Davis]

HEY! I personally represent that statement!

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Sledgehammer meet nut (if the cap fits, Mrs P...) why are you making this
so difficult? Ever heard of ASCII? I have learnt the ASCII codes for the
symbols I use most often; including degree, squared, cubed, half,
quarter, three-quarters, one-third, two-thirds and copyright.

Meter/Metre. The international standard unit of length, approximately
equivalent to 39.37 inches. It was redefined in 1983 as the distance
traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second!

a. The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm,
syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.

b. A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter,
determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line.

c. The rhythmic pattern of a stanza, determined by the kind and number of
lines.

Music.

a. Division into measures or bars.
b. A specific rhythm determined by the number of beats and the time value
assigned to each note in a measure.

[Middle English, from Old English meter and from Old French metre, both from
Latin metrum, from Greek metron, measure, poetic meter.]