Editing a Symbol?

[Hoges in WA]

Would anyone know if it's possible to edit a symbol in the list? I need to
have some Navigation symbols to hand for chartwork stuff. One is a circle
and the other is a triangle. Both require dots inside the symbol to be
accurate. I also need a square with arrows through it but we can leave that
out for the moment.

I'd appreciate any pointers anyone might have.

thanks
hoges in WA

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

For your Circle with a dot, you might use Windings character 164, or
Wingdings 2 charater 157

For your triangle with a dot, you might try using the following field
construction

{ EQ \o (Wingdings 3 character 114, Wingdings character 160) }

where you insert those symbols inside the ( ). You must use Ctrl+F9 for the
field delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. You
could save the field construction as an autotext entry to facilitate its
use.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Klaus Linke]

Would anyone know if it's possible to edit a symbol in the list? I need
to
have some Navigation symbols to hand for chartwork stuff. One is a circle
and the other is a triangle. Both require dots inside the symbol to be
accurate. I also need a square with arrows through it but we can leave
that
out for the moment.

I'd appreciate any pointers anyone might have.

You could also choose a large font like "Arial Unicode MS", and look through
say the "Mathematical Operators" subset, or "Geometric Shapes",
"Miscellaneous Technical"... If those symbols are commonly used, you are
pretty likely to find them somewhere... Say
â—¬ 25EC WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WITH DOT
⊙ 2299 CIRCLED DOT OPERATOR
⊡ 22A1 SQUARED DOT OPERATOR
â 2350 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD UPWARDS ARROW
â— 2357 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD DOWNWARDS ARROW
....

I'm not sure, from your description, exactly what it is you need...
Regards, Klaus

 

[Hoges in WA]

Well, that was interesting - thanks for the tip/s. The circle is spot on but
the dot in the triangle is at the top of the apex and I'd prefer it in the
middle. To put it in context for you, the circle with the dot in it is where
you are on a chart when you've worked out your position - a "fix". The
triangle is an Estimated Position. The dot is where you are, the circle and
triangle change depending on how sure you are of where you are.
Not sure how to amend to location of the dot in the triangle at this stage.

 

[Hoges in WA]

Thanks Klaus. I couldn't find the subsets you mention - under my "Symbols"
I've only got two tabs.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have Word 2000 or above, in the upper right corner of the Symbol
dialog there is a dropdown labeled "Subset." If you select Arial Unicode MS
as the font (you must have it installed, which it is not by default), you'll
have many more subsets than you have in "(normal text)."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CombineCharacters.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

To get the sub types that Suzanne mentions, you must also select Unicode
(hex) from the "from:" pulldown in the lower section of the Insert Symbol
dialog at the right hand side.

Then with Arial Unicode MS selected as the font, choose Geometric Shapes
from the Subset pulldown and select the "WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE WIT....
Character code 25EC.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Hoges in WA]

Thanks Doug - I was tearing my hair out trying to find this dropdown until I
finally realised selection of the font was WITHIN the symbol box, not in the
document. Once I found it in the right spot, no problems.

Suzanne's article was quite informative to a non-techie like me - I work in
finance and a lot of my papers are "pre-written" and if I try to edit them,
they get screwed up. I think I now recognise where our paper-mill people
find their codes and now I know where to look to "interfere" with them!!
There's no stopping me now.

I'm not quite happy with the triangle one so I'm going to hunt further
through the Mathematical and Geometric subsets that Klaus refers to to see
what I can find - the 25EC is real good.