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Insert Symbol search
I spend a lot of unneccesary time hunting throught the Insert Symbol dialog,
looking through the seemingly random list of Times New Roman characters to find the one I want. They all have a name (it shows up in caps in the lower left side of the dialog), so it would be great if there was a Find-As-You-Type feature in the Insert Symbol box that would narrow down the symbols. For instance, I could type "degree" and the degree symbol would be left in the box, or I could type "fraction" to see the three vulgar fraction symbols. Any thoughts? Is this in Office 2007 already? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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I don't think it's in Office 2007, as this is the first time I've seen it
suggested, but it's not a bad idea. I agree that you can spend a lot of time looking for symbols, especially if you're searching Arial Unicode MS. But you can usually narrow down your search somewhat by selecting a likely-sounding character subset. -- 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. "Enu" wrote in message ... I spend a lot of unneccesary time hunting throught the Insert Symbol dialog, looking through the seemingly random list of Times New Roman characters to find the one I want. They all have a name (it shows up in caps in the lower left side of the dialog), so it would be great if there was a Find-As-You-Type feature in the Insert Symbol box that would narrow down the symbols. For instance, I could type "degree" and the degree symbol would be left in the box, or I could type "fraction" to see the three vulgar fraction symbols. Any thoughts? Is this in Office 2007 already? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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If you know the subset you need, you can click on the combo box arrow next
to "Subset" and type the first character of the subset (say "G" for "General punctuation" or once more for "Geometric shapes"). Klaus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I don't think it's in Office 2007, as this is the first time I've seen it suggested, but it's not a bad idea. I agree that you can spend a lot of time looking for symbols, especially if you're searching Arial Unicode MS. But you can usually narrow down your search somewhat by selecting a likely-sounding character subset. -- 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. "Enu" wrote in message ... I spend a lot of unneccesary time hunting throught the Insert Symbol dialog, looking through the seemingly random list of Times New Roman characters to find the one I want. They all have a name (it shows up in caps in the lower left side of the dialog), so it would be great if there was a Find-As-You-Type feature in the Insert Symbol box that would narrow down the symbols. For instance, I could type "degree" and the degree symbol would be left in the box, or I could type "fraction" to see the three vulgar fraction symbols. Any thoughts? Is this in Office 2007 already? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Good to know. Thanks, Klaus.
-- 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. "Klaus Linke" wrote in message ... If you know the subset you need, you can click on the combo box arrow next to "Subset" and type the first character of the subset (say "G" for "General punctuation" or once more for "Geometric shapes"). Klaus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I don't think it's in Office 2007, as this is the first time I've seen it suggested, but it's not a bad idea. I agree that you can spend a lot of time looking for symbols, especially if you're searching Arial Unicode MS. But you can usually narrow down your search somewhat by selecting a likely-sounding character subset. -- 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. "Enu" wrote in message ... I spend a lot of unneccesary time hunting throught the Insert Symbol dialog, looking through the seemingly random list of Times New Roman characters to find the one I want. They all have a name (it shows up in caps in the lower left side of the dialog), so it would be great if there was a Find-As-You-Type feature in the Insert Symbol box that would narrow down the symbols. For instance, I could type "degree" and the degree symbol would be left in the box, or I could type "fraction" to see the three vulgar fraction symbols. Any thoughts? Is this in Office 2007 already? ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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