Special characters & numbers in tables....

Hello...
I've just started using Pages '08 and I'm having a couple of problems.....
Firstly.... I can't seem to insert special characters.... when I click Edit > Special Characters... nothing happens.... is there something wrong with my software?
Secondly.... When I try to insert a value such as 1.00 into a table Pages automatically corrects it to 1, deleting the decimal places.... how can I change this?....
Any help at all would be great...... Thanks...

Firstly.... I can't seem to insert special characters.... when I click Edit > Special Characters... nothing happens.... is there something wrong with my software?
There is a possible fix here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307354

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Hi all,
This is my table
Table Name- Table1
S.no    Name
1          aaaaaaaa
2          a1234sgjghb
3          a@3$%jkhkjn
4          abcd-dfghjik
5          bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
6          ashgweqfg/gfjwgefj////
7          sdsaf$([]:'
8          <-fdsjgbdfsg
9           dfgfdgfd"uodf
10         aaaa bbbbz#$
11         cccc dddd-/mnm
The output has to be
S.no    Name
3          a@3$%jkhkjn
5          bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
7          sdsaf$([]:'
8          <-fdsjgbdfsg
10         aaaa bbbbz#$
It has to return "Name" column which is having special characters,whereas some special chars like -, / ," and space are acceptable.
The Oracle query has to print columns having special characters excluding -,/," and space
Can anyone help me to get a SQL query for the above.
Thanks in advance.

You can achieve it in multiple ways. Here are few.
SQL> with t
2 as
3 (
4 select 1 id, 'aaaaaaaa' name from dual union all
5 select 2 id, 'a1234sgjghb' name from dual union all
6 select 3 id, 'a@3$%jkhkjn' name from dual union all
7 select 4 id, 'abcd-dfghjik' name from dual union all
8 select 5 id, 'bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#' name from dual union all
9 select 6 id, 'ashgweqfg/gfjwgefj////' name from dual union all
10 select 7 id, 'sdsaf$([]:''' name from dual union all
11 select 8 id, '<-fdsjgbdfsg' name from dual union all
12 select 9 id, 'dfgfdgfd"uodf' name from dual union all
13 select 10 id, 'aaaa bbbbz#$' name from dual union all
14 select 11 id, 'cccc dddd-/mnm' name from dual
15 )
16 select *
17    from t
18   where regexp_like(translate(name,'a-/" ','a'), '[^[:alnum:]]');
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         3 a@3$%jkhkjn
         5 bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
         7 sdsaf$([]:'
         8 <-fdsjgbdfsg
        10 aaaa bbbbz#$
SQL> with t
2 as
3 (
4 select 1 id, 'aaaaaaaa' name from dual union all
5 select 2 id, 'a1234sgjghb' name from dual union all
6 select 3 id, 'a@3$%jkhkjn' name from dual union all
7 select 4 id, 'abcd-dfghjik' name from dual union all
8 select 5 id, 'bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#' name from dual union all
9 select 6 id, 'ashgweqfg/gfjwgefj////' name from dual union all
10 select 7 id, 'sdsaf$([]:''' name from dual union all
11 select 8 id, '<-fdsjgbdfsg' name from dual union all
12 select 9 id, 'dfgfdgfd"uodf' name from dual union all
13 select 10 id, 'aaaa bbbbz#$' name from dual union all
14 select 11 id, 'cccc dddd-/mnm' name from dual
15 )
16 select *
17    from t
18   where translate
19         (
20            lower(translate(name,'a-/" ','a'))
21          , '.0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
22          , '.'
23         ) is not null;
        ID NAME
         3 a@3$%jkhkjn
         5 bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
         7 sdsaf$([]:'
         8 <-fdsjgbdfsg
        10 aaaa bbbbz#$
SQL>

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Edited by: user628655 on Jul 27, 2009 9:47 AM
Edited by: user628655 on Jul 27, 2009 9:49 AM
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Hey,
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2 ("aa&bb" varchar2(10));
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