Music Symbol Font

[Goldtop LesPaul]

I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp or flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to find them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these, but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

 

[Goldtop LesPaul]

Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD or
on-line.

 

[Bruce Rusk]

Tahoma -- which should be installed by default -- also has them.

 

[Bruce Rusk]

PS -- I think the reason these were included is that they appeared as
special control characters (along with the 4 card suits) in certain systems
way back when. That's a guess but I vaguely recall seeing them appear on
mainframe-connected terminals....

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It seems to have the sharp but not the flat or natural. But thanks for the
additional info.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See "Description of the Arial Unicode MS font in Word 2002" at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q287247/. Note that you have to scroll down
a screen to see any useful content. The article gives installation
instructions for Office XP. Installing it in Office 2003 should be similar.

 

[Bruce Rusk]

Strange, it has both on my system (It's Tahoma version 3.14).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, mine is 2.80. Windows XP probably includes a newer version (I have
Windows 2000).

 

[Goldtop LesPaul]

Ok thanks that link helped me get the font on there. This is an XP Home
computer but the Tacoma font only has that sharp symbol and it is version 3.14