Thank you for the prompt reply, Suzanne. That is very interesting and I
understand more now about why the symbols are arranged the way they are.
However, it still does not seem to me that it is very intuitive or user
friendly. This has been a frustration of mine for a long time and I would be
interested to know if others have expressed the same frustration. Just
because some intenational board dictates that something should be a certain
way, does that mean that everybody has to fall into step?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
The symbols are listed in their ANSI or Unicode order (depending on the
display). The arrangement of character sets dates back to the Stone Age of
computing and, as the names imply (ANSI = American National Standards
Institute; for Unicode, see http://unicode.org/) the layout has been
determined by national/international standards organizations; it is not
something Microsoft can change any more than it can change the arrangement
of keys on a QWERTY keyboard.
But you don't need to go to Insert | Symbol just to insert the ¢ symbol. The
keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+/, c. Find more at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"mtnpastor" wrote in message
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This is one of the least intuitive aspects of MS Word. I have Word 2003
with
all the updates and to find the ¢ symbol, I have to go to insert, symbol,
then cursor down seven lines to get to the ¢ symbol. What I find odd
about
this is the $ is on the first line of the symbol listing. Why is the ¢
symbol not right next to it!!! I find this odd and not typical of the way
most people think when they are searching for monetary symbols. Does
anyone
out there agree? How do we go about communicating this to the MS
Word/Office
staff to get an update that corrects this situation?