Font with Triangles

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Carol and Allen Bredt

I need to find a font or several fonts that include triangles - up, down,
left, right - as well as regular characters.

Thanks for saving me tons of time looking at 1000 fonts,
Carol
 
Have you tried Wingdings 3?

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I looked at Wingdings3 and it has all of the triangles that I want, but how
can I make a Word document with alphabetic characters plus the Wingdings3
characters?

Thanks, Carol
 
C said:
I looked at Wingdings3 and it has all of the triangles that I want,
but how can I make a Word document with alphabetic characters plus
the Wingdings3 characters?
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Youa re not restricted to a single font in a document. You can format every
character as a different font.
 
Can you tell me the easiest way to get lines to look like this:

Press (right-facing triangle)
Press ( up-facing triangle)
Press Play
Press (up-facing triangle)

Do I have to go up to the menu bar and change the font for every symbol or
is there a way to define some Ctrl or Alt character to do it?

Thanks, Carol
 
As Mike says, you can use any font you wish, but the easiest way to insert
isolated characters from a symbol font is to use Insert | Symbol. For more
on this (and other options for inserting symbols), see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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Carol and Allen Bredt said:
Can you tell me the easiest way to get lines to look like this:

Press (right-facing triangle)
Press ( up-facing triangle)
Press Play
Press (up-facing triangle)

Do I have to go up to the menu bar and change the font for every symbol or
is there a way to define some Ctrl or Alt character to do it?

Thanks, Carol
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Hi, Carol,

Here's the easiest way:

Open the Insert > Symbol dialog and select Wingdings3 font.

Click once on the right-facing triangle character. Click the Shortcut
Key button at the bottom of the dialog. In the Shortcut dialog, with
the cursor in the "Press new shortcut key" box, press the combination
you want for this character -- I suggest Alt+1, which isn't assigned
to anything by default. Click the Assign button and then the Close
button.

Select the up-facing triangle character and assign a shortcut -- such
as Alt+2, to that one. Repeat as needed for other symbols you plan to
use. Finally, click Close in the Insert > Symbol dialog.

Now you can start typing in the document. Wherever you need one of
these symbols, press the appropriate shortcut key. You won't have to
fiddle with the font settings.
 
Thanks to both of you.
Carol

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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
As Mike says, you can use any font you wish, but the easiest way to insert
isolated characters from a symbol font is to use Insert | Symbol. For more
on this (and other options for inserting symbols), see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
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