Hi Paul,

Nope, nothing at all to do with macros. The search term you want is "ASCII
art" -- there's tons of it on the 'Net. For example, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art and follow the links at the bottom.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Paul (ESI) wrote:
I THINK that I've heard what I'm about to describe is called a macro.
I was wondering, however, if anybody knows of a site or sites where
you can find pictures that you can create in word from typed
characters. In other words, just a bunch of random stuff like or (
or ^ that can be used to make a somewhat elaborate picture (in other
words, not just one of these fellers: O_o).

I've seen ones of all sorts of things, such as the Scream ghost face
guy, and a particularly rude one that... shall we say... tells you
that you are number one in not so nice a way. I've also seen ones of
the American flag. I'm not sure what to call them, (I thought they
were called macros, but that doesn't help in a search engine, because
macros are also something else, as most of us know) so I have not
been able to find them.