Need full special font layout in Office (e.g., symbols, etc.)

[John J. Clever]

I've used office (or its individual packages) since the 1980's. As a former
tech staff at a national lab and now as a college professor, I regularly need
to create one or another type of document / spreadsheet / powerpoint
presentation that incorporates special symbols. Where Greek/math symbols are
not incorporated, need them as I've found a number of third party software
does not upgrade with MS Office versions. In general, it would be very nice
to be able to just click on the specific font (particularly symbol,
wingbats/dingbats, etc.) and determine immediatley just which key produces
what. Similarly, it would help to have some sort of pop-up for hot key
sequences such as --> that produces special symbols in Word. This
information might be available but doesn't seem to be intuitive.

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[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

John

In Word 2003, you can 'insert' symbols.. the window that pops up has a tab
that when clicked shows keystrokes at a glance..

 

[Mary Sauer]

Charmap is good, free...
http://www.nongnu.org/charmap/

 

[Mary Sauer]

Oops, you need gnu...

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Mary

That makes MS Character Map look good..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

I use the MS Charmap frequently.

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

The 'insert' function can be used in the same way as Character Map..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

I use the MS Charmap frequently.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[Dian D. Chapman, MVP]

You might want to check out this TechTrax article...on special
characters...

They're So Special
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=514

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
Editor/TechTrax Ezine

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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:08:02 -0700, "John J. Clever" <John J.

 

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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:08:02 -0700, "John J. Clever" <John J.

I've used office (or its individual packages) since the 1980's. As a former
tech staff at a national lab and now as a college professor, I regularly need
to create one or another type of document / spreadsheet / powerpoint
presentation that incorporates special symbols. Where Greek/math symbols are
not incorporated, need them as I've found a number of third party software
does not upgrade with MS Office versions. In general, it would be very nice
to be able to just click on the specific font (particularly symbol,
wingbats/dingbats, etc.) and determine immediatley just which key produces
what. Similarly, it would help to have some sort of pop-up for hot key
sequences such as --> that produces special symbols in Word. This
information might be available but doesn't seem to be intuitive.

Find the Character Map and drag it ito your Quick Launch toolbar for
easy access when you're not using Word.