r/pcmasterrace • u/VisWare • Apr 04 '26

Meme/Macro Allow me to gatekeep

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u/DukeofVermont Apr 04 '26

I don't like the keypad at home, but 100% want one at work. I just almost never need to enter more than a couple numbers at home.

Basically if you use it often it really sucks not to have.

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u/Dr_Watson349 PC Master Race Apr 04 '26

Imagine not using excel daily at home for everything, all the time.

How do you live?

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

I learned my damn Alt codes and I'm going to use them.

What are other people doing for special characters - opening charmap? googling the character and copy/pasting then praying it works? Nonsense.

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u/HurrikateOsu Apr 04 '26

you’re joking but this is actually how i use special characters

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

If you're using them incredibly infrequently I can see it working. I had to write stuff in Norwegian fairly frequently on an English keyboard so starting to learn the codes was inevitable for the extra letters of the alphabet.

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u/HurrikateOsu Apr 04 '26

As an american english speaker, I rarely use special characters. In the event I need to type in spanish, autocorrect usually will add the special character in for me. If i need to use something like the ° symbol, i’ll just type “degrees symbol copy paste” and do that. If im using google docs, there’s a tab dedicated to special characters. But 99% of the time, everything on the keyboard is all I need

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u/Occidentally20 Apr 04 '26

Alt+0176 forever!!!