It's fairly easy to print a reference sheet of a standard symbol font,
because they contain only glyphs 32-255 (more on that in a moment). For the
larger Unicode fonts, you could print out samples, but they would be many
pages long, and it would be a much more involved process. Unless you're
interested in a specific font, you can get samples of various code ranges
(character subsets) from
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
1. To create a symbol reference sheet, insert a table with 14 columns and 32
rows.
2. In the odd-numbered columns, type the numbers from 32 to 255 (that is,
32-63 in column 1, 64-95 in column 3, etc.).
3. Select the even-numbered columns and apply the desired font (Wingdings,
for example).
4. In these columns, insert the corresponding character for each number by
pressing, for example, Alt+0032 (on the numeric keypad). 32 is a space, so
you won't see anything, but for 33 and the rest, you should see characters.
This is very tedious for the first font you do, but you can then create a
similar chart for any other symbol font by just changing the font of the
even-numbered columns.
