Misunderstand

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Once again I failed to explain myself clearly. On the webpage you indicated
(http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm), under Symbol Insert
(at the top), you can see characters from ! to G. What I want to do is
insert in my document all of these characters at once, rather than
laboriously inserting them one by one. Why? I have a particular Unicode
font that contains thousands of Chinese characters, which I want to insert
into a Word document. There are other ways to get Chinese characters online,
but all I was asking is if there was a way to insert all the characters in a
particular font into a Word document.
 
Did you look at the post I referred you to? If not, I'll repeat it here:

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.

This could be adapted for other character ranges, but it is not very
practical. Unfortunately, there is no shortcut for this. The nearest thing I
can think of is this: In Excel, use AutoFill to generate a list of the hex
character numbers in question (say, 3300-9FA5) and copy them into Word, then
apply the desired font. Selecting a number and pressing Alt+X will convert
it to the Unicode character. Unfortunately, you can do only one character at
a time this way.

You can print out standard samples of fonts using the Print command after
opening a font in the Fonts folder, but this will not print all characters.
You would be much better advised to get the online Unicode charts (which are
in PDF format) and print them.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
Back
Top