Posted by Judy on 1/31/05 3:37pm
Msg #18893

Addl Chg for ordering payoff?

On a deal I did last week I offered to assist her with ordering a payoff statement since she complained she is so overwhelmed. Do I charge her extra for the half-hour work I did prior to actual closing?

Thanks.

Reply by James Kobleur on 1/31/05 4:32pm
Msg #18899

IMO, if you said you were going to charge then yes, but if you didn't specify that you were planning to charge for your efforts, then, no. Just my $0.02 (BTW, what ever happened to the cents key?)

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/31/05 5:59pm
Msg #18916

" ¢ " Sign

You mean: >>> ¢ <<< ?

Hold down your [alt] key and at the same time, key in 0162

Old legal secretaries know these things.

If you want >>> § <<<<
You hold down your [alt] key + 21.

Reply by Ted_MI on 1/31/05 6:14pm
Msg #18920

Re: " ¢ " Sign

Brenda,

Giving yourself the benefit of the doubt, I think you really mean "former legal secretaries".

So what else can be accessed? Anything?

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/31/05 7:45pm
Msg #18932

Re: " ¢ " Sign

TED: "Giving yourself the benefit of the doubt, I think you really mean "former legal secretaries"."

NO! I mean OLD and MEAN. The kind of old legal secretaries that use to scare me when I was young and nice.

Just trying to gain a little REspect from the newbies...heh heh.


&


"So what else can be accessed? Anything?"

Yep. Lot's of nifty little symbols. Paul can probably give us some search terms to find them. You can also access them if you use MS Word through this:

With a document open, do ||Insert || Symbol || and a window with a group of symbols drops down.

Back in the 90's when I was a Young & Nice legal secretary, I had a chart that I used to create the symbols when I typed pleadings; or when I typed property descriptions in METES & BOUNDS. I was using WordPerfect back then.

My hat will always be off to the Metes & Bounds typist before the days of word processing.

Reply by sue on 1/31/05 8:00pm
Msg #18935

Re: " ¢ " Sign

oh, that was me - I can type a deed description with minutes, seconds, radius, perches, thence along, through whatever, including chestnut grubs, rock piles, fence posts, whatever is needed - and I can fly through it with probably no errors - typing and moving that ruler at the same time is a true art form that has been lost by virtue of the new fangled "See Attached Exhibit A". I can also take the survey and from looking at the drawing type up all that jibberish, AND it will close when I'm finished if the surveyor has done his job correctly. I think 'old' is the key word here, not 'former'.

Reply by CarolynCO on 1/31/05 9:01pm
Msg #18947

Re: " ¢ " Sign

**Back in the 90's when I was a Young & Nice legal secretary**

I don't think in the 20 years that I've been a legal secretary I've ever been referred to *Young* and *Nice*

Reply by PAW_Fl on 1/31/05 9:35pm
Msg #18951

Re: " ¢ " Sign

Want to see what else you can get? Click on the START button, then RUN, type CHARMAP and press the enter key. If not already selected, use a common "base" font, like COURIER NEW, and for the Character Set, select Windows:Western. Left click (just once) on a symbol (that's not directly available from the keyboard) and notice the "keystroke" in the lower right corner. The numbers are entered from the number pad on the right side (normally) of the keyboard.

For example, the copyright symbol © is "Keystroke: Alt+0169"
The registered symbol ® is Alt+0174
The trade mark symbol ™ is Alt+0153
The pilcrow symbol ¶ is Alt+0182

Have fun

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/31/05 10:03pm
Msg #18953

Re: " ¢ " Sign - THAAAAANK YOUUUUU PAUL N/M

Reply by HisHughness on 1/31/05 11:18pm
Msg #18960

Re: " ¢ " Sign

Brenda recollects:

***when I typed property descriptions in METES & BOUNDS***

I always thought "metes and bounds" referred to some sort of sado-masochistic perversions.

Reply by sue on 1/31/05 7:55pm
Msg #18933

cool

the double s didn't work for me - I just tried it - I haven't been able to produce one of those since typing a Brief on an IBM Selectric and half rolling the paper

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/31/05 8:26pm
Msg #18939

Re: cool

No § ??? Alt + 21 doesn't work???

Darn it!

I hope you can figure out how to get that back! I love that little sign.

If you are really partial to it, I think you can just copy it and paste it into a text file. I have done that before too, before I knew about the Alt + ___ trick.

Reply by Nd_WA on 2/1/05 4:51am
Msg #18982

Re: cool

You can get the whole CHARMAP by clicking on:
Start -->Search-->file/folder (charmap.exe)-->search in (C:\Windows). Once you found it, copy/paste to your desktop.

§=alt+0167

Reply by HisHughness on 2/1/05 9:17am
Msg #19002

Re: cool

The Character Map is great! I keep it on my desktop.

Reply by Kat/CA on 2/10/05 9:45pm
Msg #20141

Re: cool

You can also find the 'Character Map' in XP by going to START--ALL PROGRAMS--ACCESSORIES--SYSTEM TOOLS--CHARACTER MAP.

This is just on the regular XP. YMMV on XP Pro...

Lots of neat stuff in there though.

Kat

Reply by CarolynCO on 1/31/05 8:51pm
Msg #18946

Re: " ¢ " Sign

Brenda boasted "Old legal secretaries know these things."

In what context are you using the word old?

Reply by Ted_MI on 1/31/05 5:38pm
Msg #18911

Judy,

In legal parlance, it seems to me that your actions and efforts would be characterized as those of "a volunteer". I agree with James' take on the situation. Plus the fact it was only half an hour. Maybe because of your good deed, she will send you a lot more work. You know "what goes around, comes around".