[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

My thoughts exactly.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I think the primary advantage of CharMap is that it can be used in any
Windows application, not just Word.

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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The person posting as Character generally has good information on font-
related stuff, and presumably has good reasons for the recommendation!

On Aug 30, 9:07 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Moreover, it can also be kept open, although you might want to resize it
to
push it out of the way. Another tremendous advantage of the Symbol dialog
(in recent versions) is that it *can* be resized (so that more characters
are displayed); you can even maximize it by double-clicking the title bar
(though doing so with Calibri will demonstrate how miserably limited the
character set is compared to TNR, Arial, etc.).

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

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
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On Aug 30, 1:48 am, "Graham Mayor" wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Why would you go to Character Map instead of to Insert Symbol within
Word?

One reason would be that you can leave it running as a point of
reference.
One key to reactivate rather than at least three to access the Insert
Symbol
function.

CharMap displays the characters at a much smaller size than Insert
Symbol, and provides no quick way to locate a specific character in
its display. And its display is likely to be covered by a document
window, whereas Insert Symbol always appears on top (and reopens, if
you've closed it, displaying your last access point, and has the last
dozen or so characters inserted lined up at the bottom).