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Music Symbol Font
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. -- 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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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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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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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 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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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 sharpor 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 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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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 sharpor 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). -- 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 ... 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 musicalsharp 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 sharpor 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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