Special characters

[incognito]

Is anyone able to give me quick hint on how to create in Word special
characters like the three charactes 1/2 as a single character ( or 3/4 as
Œ3/4¹, etc.)
Thanks in advance for any tip.
Rudolf

 

[JE McGimpsey]

If you're using Word2004, you can insert the characters using the system
character palette.

Alternatively, you can switch to the Visual Basic Editor (OPT-F11), open
the Immediate window (CMD-G) and type or paste this into the window,
followed by Return:

Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceFractions = True

Type Opt-F11 to return to Word. From then on, typing 1/2 will convert to
the unicode character.

 

[incognito]

Thanks for the attention to my issue. I do not have Word2004 but Word from
Office:Mac v.X. I have tried your alternative suggestion using Opt-F11,
etc. But to no avail.
I have noticed that within the Character Palette they show fractions under
the Unicode and Glyphs option tabs. However, a little footnote tells me
that my application (Word or Entourage) does not support Unicode character
encoding? Apparently, in Entourage I could copy fraction-characters for
certain fonts. What am I missing? Where can I select Unicode encoding in my
Mac/MS Word?
You may respond to me at the above address.
Thanks again for any hint.
Rudolf

You wrote on 7/9/04 1:58 PM

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks for the attention to my issue. I do not have Word2004 but Word from
Office:Mac v.X. I have tried your alternative suggestion using Opt-F11,
etc. But to no avail.
I have noticed that within the Character Palette they show fractions under
the Unicode and Glyphs option tabs. However, a little footnote tells me
that my application (Word or Entourage) does not support Unicode character
encoding? Apparently, in Entourage I could copy fraction-characters for
certain fonts. What am I missing? Where can I select Unicode encoding in my
Mac/MS Word?
You may respond to me at the above address.
Thanks again for any hint.
Rudolf

You are more or less out of luck with Word v.X It does not do unicode
at all. Probably an accident of Word and OS X history. v.X and the
version of OS X that first did unicode were born about the same time.
Unfortunately Word was not updated as OS X unicode and long file name
support advanced. Not until Office 2004.

However, if you *must* have fractions in v.X, you can lash something up
with EQ fields or a bit of creative super/subscripting.

Google this group for previous controversy on the subject "fractions"
and my name in the author will bring up an interesting discussion on
faking fractions.
e.g
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=
off&threadm=170520021342466252%25elliott%40yrl.co.uk&rnum=2&prev=/groups
%3Fq%3Dfractions%2Bgroup:microsoft.public.mac.office.word%2Bauthor:ellio
tt%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sel
m%3D170520021342466252%2525elliott%2540yrl.co.uk%26rnum%3D2

erk! That won't live through too many newsreaders will it?

try this alias to it:-
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P505225C8

 

[JE McGimpsey]

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=
off&threadm=170520021342466252%25elliott%40yrl.co.uk&rnum=2&prev=/groups
%3Fq%3Dfractions%2Bgroup:microsoft.public.mac.office.word%2Bauthor:ellio
tt%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sel
m%3D170520021342466252%2525elliott%2540yrl.co.uk%26rnum%3D2

erk! That won't live through too many newsreaders will it?

Elliot - you can get rid of most of that dreck, most of which describes
how you searched. Just leave the "threadm" portion:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=170520021342466252%[email protected]

For me it's more convenient than going to tinyURL.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Elliot - you can get rid of most of that dreck, most of which describes
how you searched. Just leave the "threadm" portion:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=170520021342466252%[email protected]

For me it's more convenient than going to tinyURL.

You have convinced me. I am a reformed url quoter.