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Old 07-17-2012
caret symbol

Hi!
I need to know where is the caret symbol (^) on the keyboard. I press Shift+6 and does not appear!! Thank you very much.

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Old 07-17-2012
Please show the output of
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It is remotely possible you have a keyboard problem - shift 6 is the caret symbol on most qwerty keyboards.
 
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