Where can I find musical symbols (flat, sharp, natural) in Word 20

[dmesbur]

Can someone tell me how to get musical symbols in Word 2007? They are in
WordPerfect 10.

 

[Yves Dhondt]

Can someone tell me how to get musical symbols in Word 2007? They are in
WordPerfect 10.

You would need a font which has them. Most music programs come with one or
more fonts but I'm not sure they are free to use.

Two (limited) free fonts are "Siciliano.ttf" and "lassus.ttf". Just use
Google to find them.

Yves

 

[Jay Freedman]

You would need a font which has them. Most music programs come with
one or more fonts but I'm not sure they are free to use.

Two (limited) free fonts are "Siciliano.ttf" and "lassus.ttf". Just
use Google to find them.

Yves

They are in the common fonts Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans Unicode, and MS
Mincho, starting at Unicode character 2669 (although Lucida lacks 2669 and
starts with 266A). You probably already have these fonts installed.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm. In Word 2007,
the Symbol dialog is at Insert > Symbol > More Symbols, but it operates
identically, as does the Alt+X shortcut.

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[grammatim]

They are in the common fonts Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans Unicode, and MS
Mincho, starting at Unicode character 2669 (although Lucida lacks 2669 and
starts with 266A). You probably already have these fonts installed.

Seehttp://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm. In Word 2007,
the Symbol dialog is at Insert > Symbol > More Symbols, but it operates
identically, as does the Alt+X shortcut.

Can you use Mincho if you don't have Asian fonts enabled?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Can you use Mincho if you don't have Asian fonts enabled?

I've never had Asian languages enabled, but Mincho is available on my PC. It
probably has features I'm not able to use, but it certainly functions as an
ordinary Western font. The typographic appearance is awful -- something like
the old screen-only bitmapped fonts from Windows 3.1 -- but it does work.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[grammatim]

I've never had Asian languages enabled, but Mincho is available on my PC.It
probably has features I'm not able to use, but it certainly functions as an
ordinary Western font. The typographic appearance is awful -- something like
the old screen-only bitmapped fonts from Windows 3.1 -- but it does work.

Are you able to use Insert Symbol or CharacterMap to insert the
occasional Chinese character? (The roman etc. letters print out in
tbat spidery font that for some reason they like in Japan. Maybe the
screen appearance is better when the capability is enabled.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Not only does it work, but it has a nasty habit of showing up where it isn't
wanted. It is covertly used (apparently) to create em and en spaces, which
have a sad tendency to revert to that font when stressed, and there are also
various bugs where form text turns into MS Mincho. Some of the most puzzling
documents I've ever seen had somehow or rather been screwed up by freak
appearances of MS Mincho.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jay Freedman]

Are you able to use Insert Symbol or CharacterMap to insert the
occasional Chinese character? (The roman etc. letters print out in
tbat spidery font that for some reason they like in Japan. Maybe the
screen appearance is better when the capability is enabled.)

Yes, I can use Insert Symbol for that, although I wouldn't know one ideograph
from another. The Subset dropdown lists a number of CJK categories (enclosed
letters and months, compatibility, unified ideographs, and extended characters),
plus Cyrillic, katakana and hiragana, and just a few characters from Bengali,
Thai, and Khmer. It's a real mess compared to the more comprehensive Unicode
fonts.

 

[grammatim]

I think the default Asian font is SimSun. I've never used em or en
spaces, but arcane things do occasionally change themselves into it or
Mincho (but I do have to have Asian fonts enabled).

They have all those odd things Jay mentioned partly so that they can
be used in places like Singapore (you might find Tamil in there too,
which is one of the four official languages of Singapore) without
making people master extra keyboards and such.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have SimSun installed but have never seen it show up unbidden; MS Mincho,
OTOH, is truly the bad seed.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

I think the default Asian font is SimSun. I've never used em or en
spaces, but arcane things do occasionally change themselves into it or
Mincho (but I do have to have Asian fonts enabled).

They have all those odd things Jay mentioned partly so that they can
be used in places like Singapore (you might find Tamil in there too,
which is one of the four official languages of Singapore) without
making people master extra keyboards and such.

 

[grammatim]

Somewhere in their history, SimSun is Chinese and Mincho is Japanese.
I think that no longer makes a difference (since all the fonts cover
all three CJK languages), but at some point it might have.