Is there any way to enter the number symbol in Word98?

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Gary Goldberg

By number symbol I mean the character that looks like "No".
I'm running OS 9.1
 
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Dayo Mitchell

By number symbol I mean the character that looks like "No".
I'm running OS 9.1
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There are fonts that have that as a *character*? Who knew? Anyhow, my
guess is not really. Word can only use the characters in the font set. If
you found a font that you were sure had it, it should show up somewhere
under Insert Symbol set to (normal text). A workaround might be to create
one yourself and set a formatted AutoCorrect for it.

Unless I'm totally confused about what you mean, I wouldn't expect this to
be a character, as it's just a capital N and superscripted o. I couldn't
find it in my pretend-archaic Lucida Blackletter or Old English Text MT.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

There are fonts that have that as a *character*? Who knew? Anyhow, my
guess is not really. Word can only use the characters in the font set. If
you found a font that you were sure had it, it should show up somewhere
under Insert Symbol set to (normal text). A workaround might be to create
one yourself and set a formatted AutoCorrect for it.

Unless I'm totally confused about what you mean, I wouldn't expect this to
be a character, as it's just a capital N and superscripted o. I couldn't
find it in my pretend-archaic Lucida Blackletter or Old English Text MT.
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It appears to be "NUMERO SIGN", Unicode 2116, (in "Letterlike Symbols" block
of the Character Palette in OS X), available in OS X in no fewer than 56
fonts if you happen to have installed all the languages OS 10.3 makes
available at install time. A great many of these are Asian and Cyrillic
fonts, but there are quite a few standard ones as well: Apple Symbols, Apple
Gothic Regular, Batang Regular, Century Regular Lucida Grande (the system
font in OS X) and Bold, MS Gothic Regular, MS Mincho Regular, Monaco
Regular.

This may not help you in OS 9 but check out those fonts in whatever versions
you can find. But chances are it's Unicode-only and won't be displayed in
Word 2001 or earlier (or X for that matter). Or upgrade to OS 10.3 - isn't
it about time?

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