What version of Excel do you have.
If you have Excel 2002 you are probably okay. .
Note within this document
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cumming/WordForLinguists/Fonts.htm
Within Word (and also Excel and Powerpoint if you have the XP version of Office) the
easiest alternative is to use Insert | Symbol. Choose a font from the list box;
Actually he called it CharMap but it is insert symbol --- and then was followed by
Character Map which looks different
Just noticed something important in those pictures, the font is not
"Arial" but is "Arial unicode MS"
which is not one of the fonts displayed in my CharMap, but unicode
is certainly available in my browsers (all of them, I think).
..
Microsoft Office Assistance: Taking Advantage of Unicode Support in Office 2000
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011382921033.aspx
see subtopic "Printing and displaying Unicode text"
I don't want to slow things down on my system, and if I changed mine it
wouldn't likely be what most other see. . You might also look at my
page
Symbols for HTML and Excel use
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/symbols.htm
Unicode, Working with in Excel
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/rexx/htm/unicode.htm
If you have Excel 2000 you have to use VBA or a function that uses VBA
though I can't get what I wanted in Excel 2000 when I just attempted to test
what I'd written up .
I'd forgotten that I had been able to get unicode characters into Excel 2000
but I'm not getting the correct cursive single close quote for ’ ’
in Excel 2000 it is a appearing as a translated straight vertical quote.
using =personal.xls!CharW(8217)
Function CharW(dec As Long) As String
CharW = ChrW(dec)
End Function
I think a lot of the problems is that Microsoft does not show the codepage used with fonts,
so it's hard to tell what you're really working with, but then if you were actually
using Unicode, then I guess you don't have/need a codepage -- I not sure about that..
I did not have these problems with mainframes in early 1990's
