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Goldtop LesPaul
 
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I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp or flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to find them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?
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Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these, but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

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"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
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I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp or

flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to find

them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?


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Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these, but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
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I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp or

flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to find

them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?



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Tahoma -- which should be installed by default -- also has them.

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
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Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of
Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these,
but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
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I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp or

flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this
Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic
Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to
find

them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?





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PS -- I think the reason these were included is that they appeared as
special control characters (along with the 4 card suits) in certain systems
way back when. That's a guess but I vaguely recall seeing them appear on
mainframe-connected terminals....

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
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Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of
Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these,
but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
message news
I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp or

flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this
Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic
Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to
find

them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?









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It seems to have the sharp but not the flat or natural. But thanks for the
additional info.

--
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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.

"Bruce Rusk" wrote in message
...
Tahoma -- which should be installed by default -- also has them.

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
message ...
Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD

or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of
Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask

me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth

note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these,
but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
message news I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp

or
flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this
Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic
Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to
find
them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?





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See "Description of the Arial Unicode MS font in Word 2002" at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q287247/. Note that you have to scroll down
a screen to see any useful content. The article gives installation
instructions for Office XP. Installing it in Office 2003 should be similar.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
message ...
Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of

Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask

me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth

note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these,

but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
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I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp

or
flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this

Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic

Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to

find
them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?




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Strange, it has both on my system (It's Tahoma version 3.14).


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It seems to have the sharp but not the flat or natural. But thanks for the
additional info.

--
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.

"Bruce Rusk" wrote in message
...
Tahoma -- which should be installed by default -- also has them.

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
message ...
Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD

or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of
Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask

me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth

note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include
these,
but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
message news I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp

or
flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this
Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic
Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to
find
them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?







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Ah, mine is 2.80. Windows XP probably includes a newer version (I have
Windows 2000).

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"Bruce Rusk" wrote in message
...
Strange, it has both on my system (It's Tahoma version 3.14).


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It seems to have the sharp but not the flat or natural. But thanks for

the
additional info.

--
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.

"Bruce Rusk" wrote in message
...
Tahoma -- which should be installed by default -- also has them.

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
message ...
Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the

CD
or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F

of
Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't

ask
me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth

note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include
these,
but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote

in
message news I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical

sharp
or
flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on

this
Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic
Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help

to
find
them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?








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Ok thanks that link helped me get the font on there. This is an XP Home
computer but the Tacoma font only has that sharp symbol and it is version 3.14

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See "Description of the Arial Unicode MS font in Word 2002" at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q287247/. Note that you have to scroll down
a screen to see any useful content. The article gives installation
instructions for Office XP. Installing it in Office 2003 should be similar.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" wrote in
message ...
Thanks for the info but of course now I can't find that font on the CD or
on-line.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Flat, natural, and sharp signs can be found at 266D, 266E, and 266F of

Arial
Unicode MS (in the Miscellaneous Dingbats character subset). Don't ask

me
why the font designer thought it was more important to have "eighth

note"
and "beamed eighth notes" in basic Unicode fonts than to include these,

but
there you have it. Arial Unicode MS is a VERY large font and is not
installed by default but should be on your Windows CD.

--
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.

"Goldtop LesPaul" Goldtop wrote in
message news I'm quite flabbergasted to discover that I can't put a musical sharp

or
flat
symbol in Word 2003. With the Word Perfect program that came on this

Dell
computer I found them within seconds by Insert | Symbol | Iconic

Symbols.
With this Word program I'm been trying to find them or even help to

find
them
for well over an hour. Can anyone help?




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