Slashed Zero

[FJB]

How do you enter a "slashed zero" using Word 2002 (XP)? I have a zero
in my email address which some people mistake as an "o" causing some
difficulties. Thanks

 

[anon k]

How do you enter a "slashed zero" using Word 2002 (XP)? I have a zero
in my email address which some people mistake as an "o" causing some
difficulties. Thanks

Typefaces (exceptions being the geek typefaces) generally don't have a
slashed zero.

If you don't want to use a geeky typeface, you can improvise a slashed
zero like in the typewriter days, by overtyping a zero and a slash. The
way to do this is with an equation field:

{\eq \o(0,/)}

Overtyping can also improvise glyphs with diacritics that might be
absent in the font file that you're using.

 

[mpt]

Insert Symbol will take you to each font's list of characters. Some have
the slash zero, which is used in Swedish, I think. It's a work around if
you don't mind being a bit inelegant.

Richard

 

[anon k]

That's actually a slashed O in Scandinavian languages, not a zero - but
it's an option that I hadn't thought of. The O is wider than the zero
in nearly all typefaces but on something like a business card, there can
be lots of freedom to play with these differences for graphic design.

 

[Edward O'Brien]

Hi.

You can insert the Ø symbol in Word and then copy and paste it into your
e-mail. How it transfers when pasted into an Account 'setup', I don't know.

It worked okay when I tried it in the body of an e-mail.

Good luck,

Ed

 

[mpt]

Hey! I knew that!!

That's actually a slashed O in Scandinavian languages, not a zero - but
it's an option that I hadn't thought of. The O is wider than the zero in
nearly all typefaces but on something like a business card, there can be
lots of freedom to play with these differences for graphic design.