When you insert a character from a "symbol" font such as Wingdings, Word
inserts it in a protected form so that the font will not change even if you
change the font of the text around it. So your tick mark is really from
Wingdings (probably), but if you changed the text from Comic Sans to, say,
Arial, the symbol would remain the same but now claim to be Arial (even
though it's still a Wingdings character). Word used to do this more
conspicuously, inserting a SYMBOL field so that you could actually see what
was going on, but I guess users found this "too much information."
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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