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What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in
Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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During a Word class, the instructor suggested we make a Word document of the
symbols we used most. I keep this on my desktop so it is quick to access when I need it. It has been very helpful! -- I have a "love/hate" relationship with computers - I love them, they hate me! "Khoshravan" wrote: What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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how do you find them for the first time? through try and error?
-- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "CJBookie" wrote: During a Word class, the instructor suggested we make a Word document of the symbols we used most. I keep this on my desktop so it is quick to access when I need it. It has been very helpful! -- I have a "love/hate" relationship with computers - I love them, they hate me! "Khoshravan" wrote: What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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Unless somebody has a better suggestion, that is the way I did it. I just
took some time and found those symbols I use most and put them into the doc. If you already have a document with many of the symbols you use, copy and paste them from there if you think that will be faster. I know it is a pain, but that is the best way I can think of. -- I have a "love/hate" relationship with computers - I love them, they hate me! "Khoshravan" wrote: how do you find them for the first time? through try and error? -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "CJBookie" wrote: During a Word class, the instructor suggested we make a Word document of the symbols we used most. I keep this on my desktop so it is quick to access when I need it. It has been very helpful! -- I have a "love/hate" relationship with computers - I love them, they hate me! "Khoshravan" wrote: What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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For mathematical symbols, try looking in the Mathematical Operators subset.
But you should have the pipe character ("|") on your keyboard (it's a shifted backslash on my keyboard). Unicode calls it "vertical line," and it's at 007C. Interestingly, that character is represented on my keyboard with U00A6 ("broken bar"). -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message news What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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Hi ?B?S2hvc2hyYXZhbg==?=,
What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") Another possibility besides the "source document", if you don't have a LOT of symbols you use regularly, would be to create AutoCorrect entries. You could name them something like symAbsolute, for example. As soon as you press the spacebar, the symbol would be inserted. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Use the Character Map that's built into Windows. First time is a pain in the
butt. After you find what you need, it's a snap to duplicate the efforts. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Khoshravan" wrote in message news how do you find them for the first time? through try and error? -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "CJBookie" wrote: During a Word class, the instructor suggested we make a Word document of the symbols we used most. I keep this on my desktop so it is quick to access when I need it. It has been very helpful! -- I have a "love/hate" relationship with computers - I love them, they hate me! "Khoshravan" wrote: What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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I have vertical line character in my keyboard left to the "BAckspace" one.
To get Unicode characters (007c) I think I have to type this code with combination of other control key. I tried Alt, Ctrl and Shift but non of them work. Which key combination I have to use? -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: For mathematical symbols, try looking in the Mathematical Operators subset. But you should have the pipe character ("|") on your keyboard (it's a shifted backslash on my keyboard). Unicode calls it "vertical line," and it's at 007C. Interestingly, that character is represented on my keyboard with U00A6 ("broken bar"). -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message news What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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You can insert symbols directly from the Symbol dialog, where you can also
assign keyboard shortcuts for them. The universal keyboard shortcut for inserting Unicode characters if you know the number is to type the number followed by Alt+X. -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message ... I have vertical line character in my keyboard left to the "BAckspace" one. To get Unicode characters (007c) I think I have to type this code with combination of other control key. I tried Alt, Ctrl and Shift but non of them work. Which key combination I have to use? -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: For mathematical symbols, try looking in the Mathematical Operators subset. But you should have the pipe character ("|") on your keyboard (it's a shifted backslash on my keyboard). Unicode calls it "vertical line," and it's at 007C. Interestingly, that character is represented on my keyboard with U00A6 ("broken bar"). -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message news What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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Thanks suzanne
It worked. Where can I find a list of unicode codes for special symbols? I think in this way I can enter my required symbols without need to go for try and error of finding symbols. -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can insert symbols directly from the Symbol dialog, where you can also assign keyboard shortcuts for them. The universal keyboard shortcut for inserting Unicode characters if you know the number is to type the number followed by Alt+X. -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message ... I have vertical line character in my keyboard left to the "BAckspace" one. To get Unicode characters (007c) I think I have to type this code with combination of other control key. I tried Alt, Ctrl and Shift but non of them work. Which key combination I have to use? -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: For mathematical symbols, try looking in the Mathematical Operators subset. But you should have the pipe character ("|") on your keyboard (it's a shifted backslash on my keyboard). Unicode calls it "vertical line," and it's at 007C. Interestingly, that character is represented on my keyboard with U00A6 ("broken bar"). -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message news What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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When you select the symbol in the Symbol dialog, the code is displayed at
the bottom of the dialog. -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message ... Thanks suzanne It worked. Where can I find a list of unicode codes for special symbols? I think in this way I can enter my required symbols without need to go for try and error of finding symbols. -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can insert symbols directly from the Symbol dialog, where you can also assign keyboard shortcuts for them. The universal keyboard shortcut for inserting Unicode characters if you know the number is to type the number followed by Alt+X. -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message ... I have vertical line character in my keyboard left to the "BAckspace" one. To get Unicode characters (007c) I think I have to type this code with combination of other control key. I tried Alt, Ctrl and Shift but non of them work. Which key combination I have to use? -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: For mathematical symbols, try looking in the Mathematical Operators subset. But you should have the pipe character ("|") on your keyboard (it's a shifted backslash on my keyboard). Unicode calls it "vertical line," and it's at 007C. Interestingly, that character is represented on my keyboard with U00A6 ("broken bar"). -- 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. "Khoshravan" wrote in message news What is the fastest way to find the requested symbols out of those tabs in Insert/Symbols? Without knowing to which category (Latin, Greece) the symbol belongs, I have to go through all tabs with a see and try. BTW I am looking for absolute symbole (A vertical line like "I") -- Rasoul Khoshravan Azar Civil Engineer, Osaka, Japan |
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Hi Rasoul,
I have vertical line character in my keyboard left to the "BAckspace" one. To get Unicode characters (007c) I think I have to type this code with combination of other control key. I tried Alt, Ctrl and Shift but non of them work. Which key combination I have to use? After typing the code, press Alt+X to turn it into the Unicode character. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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