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I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it
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You can create them easily enough. See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get
it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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Linda,
What part don't you get? Where you able to use the EQ field to overstrike a character 7 or character Z with a dash? On Mar 20, 10:55 am, LindaC wrote: I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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hi. what you can do to create a "European 7" is use the standard 7, and then
use the 'strikethrough' effect in the font "LindaC" wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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Suzanne,
I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs
very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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Suzanne,
That is graceful and thorough reply. However, I don't agree and I think that the OP's needs are efficiently addressed in both articles. After all, a very good dicitionary doesn't get around to mentioning a zebra until pretty late in the game ;-). -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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But users don't have to read the whole dictionary to get to "zebra," either.
I don't think either of our articles has very clear pointers at the beginning to indicate that there's "something completely different" inconspicuously stuck in the middle, and there isn't any particular fanfare when it does appear. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, That is graceful and thorough reply. However, I don't agree and I think that the OP's needs are efficiently addressed in both articles. After all, a very good dicitionary doesn't get around to mentioning a zebra until pretty late in the game ;-). -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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But I think by providing the OP the link we are both saying "The information
you seek is contained herein." In both cases it is. I don't think it is too much to expect the OP to "read" the material "soup to nuts" if need be to get to the answer. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: But users don't have to read the whole dictionary to get to "zebra," either. I don't think either of our articles has very clear pointers at the beginning to indicate that there's "something completely different" inconspicuously stuck in the middle, and there isn't any particular fanfare when it does appear. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, That is graceful and thorough reply. However, I don't agree and I think that the OP's needs are efficiently addressed in both articles. After all, a very good dicitionary doesn't get around to mentioning a zebra until pretty late in the game ;-). -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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I have not (re-)read either of your articles but I can't help thinking that
the 'requirement' in this case is artificial. The need to differentiate ones and sevens, and twos and zeds, is an issue in handwriting - when typed, these characters are easily distinguishable. Perhaps differentiation between ones and ells or zeros and letter Os may be needed but I'm not sure there is any agreed convention on how to do that. -- Enjoy, Tony "Greg Maxey" schreef in bericht ... But I think by providing the OP the link we are both saying "The information you seek is contained herein." In both cases it is. I don't think it is too much to expect the OP to "read" the material "soup to nuts" if need be to get to the answer. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: But users don't have to read the whole dictionary to get to "zebra," either. I don't think either of our articles has very clear pointers at the beginning to indicate that there's "something completely different" inconspicuously stuck in the middle, and there isn't any particular fanfare when it does appear. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, That is graceful and thorough reply. However, I don't agree and I think that the OP's needs are efficiently addressed in both articles. After all, a very good dicitionary doesn't get around to mentioning a zebra until pretty late in the game ;-). -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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I totally agree. If the OP were using a (messy) handwriting font and wanted
to replicate actual handwriting, I could see the point, otherwise not. Wrt distinguishing ones and ells, BTW, I read a book not too long ago that really took me back because so many of the dates looked weird. Upon inspection, it appeared that the writer, who presumably learned typing on a typewriter keyboard, had used an ell for the ones, resulting in l90l, 200l, etc. The characters themselves are not that different, but the spacing is quite arresting, since figures are monospaced in most fonts, with the result that a one (1) takes as much space as a 9; an ell (l) doesn't. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... I have not (re-)read either of your articles but I can't help thinking that the 'requirement' in this case is artificial. The need to differentiate ones and sevens, and twos and zeds, is an issue in handwriting - when typed, these characters are easily distinguishable. Perhaps differentiation between ones and ells or zeros and letter Os may be needed but I'm not sure there is any agreed convention on how to do that. -- Enjoy, Tony "Greg Maxey" schreef in bericht ... But I think by providing the OP the link we are both saying "The information you seek is contained herein." In both cases it is. I don't think it is too much to expect the OP to "read" the material "soup to nuts" if need be to get to the answer. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: But users don't have to read the whole dictionary to get to "zebra," either. I don't think either of our articles has very clear pointers at the beginning to indicate that there's "something completely different" inconspicuously stuck in the middle, and there isn't any particular fanfare when it does appear. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, That is graceful and thorough reply. However, I don't agree and I think that the OP's needs are efficiently addressed in both articles. After all, a very good dicitionary doesn't get around to mentioning a zebra until pretty late in the game ;-). -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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Yes, it really is quite noticeable when you point it out. Funny how
distracting something so seemingly trivial can be. -- Enjoy, Tony "Suzanne S. Barnhill" schreef in bericht ... I totally agree. If the OP were using a (messy) handwriting font and wanted to replicate actual handwriting, I could see the point, otherwise not. Wrt distinguishing ones and ells, BTW, I read a book not too long ago that really took me back because so many of the dates looked weird. Upon inspection, it appeared that the writer, who presumably learned typing on a typewriter keyboard, had used an ell for the ones, resulting in l90l, 200l, etc. The characters themselves are not that different, but the spacing is quite arresting, since figures are monospaced in most fonts, with the result that a one (1) takes as much space as a 9; an ell (l) doesn't. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... I have not (re-)read either of your articles but I can't help thinking that the 'requirement' in this case is artificial. The need to differentiate ones and sevens, and twos and zeds, is an issue in handwriting - when typed, these characters are easily distinguishable. Perhaps differentiation between ones and ells or zeros and letter Os may be needed but I'm not sure there is any agreed convention on how to do that. -- Enjoy, Tony "Greg Maxey" schreef in bericht ... But I think by providing the OP the link we are both saying "The information you seek is contained herein." In both cases it is. I don't think it is too much to expect the OP to "read" the material "soup to nuts" if need be to get to the answer. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: But users don't have to read the whole dictionary to get to "zebra," either. I don't think either of our articles has very clear pointers at the beginning to indicate that there's "something completely different" inconspicuously stuck in the middle, and there isn't any particular fanfare when it does appear. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, That is graceful and thorough reply. However, I don't agree and I think that the OP's needs are efficiently addressed in both articles. After all, a very good dicitionary doesn't get around to mentioning a zebra until pretty late in the game ;-). -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: After looking at both, I concede that neither one addresses the OP's needs very efficiently. Neither of us gets around to mentioning "other uses" for the EQ \o field until quite late in the article (and of course neither of us mentions a hyphen specifically, though my slashed zero might be a bit closer than your centerline composition). Most of both articles is devoted to ways to box text or put lines around it in various ways, though I had remembered mine as getting to other apps a bit quicker. Perhaps what is needed is an article that more directly addresses the idea of overstruck characters, with a variety of examples. It occurs to me belatedly that an even simpler application for a struckthrough 7 or Z would be just to use Strikethrough formatting, though none of these workarounds is a good substitute for using a font that contains characters designed this way. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I concede that your article is very good, but I really don't see how my explaination of overstriking one character with another could be more direct. If you have suggestions for improvement then I would like to hear them. -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: For an article more directly targeted to your requirements, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm "LindaC" wrote in message ... I have read your article thanks, but I still am not clear. I just don't get it. "Greg Maxey" wrote: You can create them easily enough. See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm After you create the symbols you can save them as AutoText. On Mar 20, 8:56 am, LindaC wrote: I am looking for the character 7 that has a line through it (differentiate it from a 1) and also a Z with a horizontal line through it. Anyone know where I can get these symbols? Thanks. |
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