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Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #1 –
G'day David,
it worked for me BUT I had to experiment a little - what you need to do is type in the number - E.G. 266d - then press <Alt-X>
I plays 'Bones, crumpets, coronets, floosgals, youfonymums 'n tubies.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #2 –
Alt-X doesn't work in Office 2000, but it does in 2003. Sadly however I can't find a font with characters at 266d, e and f so it's not much use anyway!

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #3 –
Did you know that MS Word allows font embedding? And, did you know that useful symbols (not at those code locations) can be found in some of my music fonts)?

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #4 –
How to allow font embedding in Word?
I can/t find it.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #5 –
In Word 97, it's at Tools > Options > Save (tab) > Embed True Type fonts.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #6 –
It works quite good.
Now colleagues see really what I write.
Thanks you.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #7 –
Don't see what the problem is, after all in Word if you type d and select NWCV15 font you get sharp, e natural and f flat.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #8 –
Hi llucyy,
not everyone has an NWC font...  :)

Lawrie
I plays 'Bones, crumpets, coronets, floosgals, youfonymums 'n tubies.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #9 –
Even if you do have the NWC font, its alignment relative to surroundings may not be the same as with ordinary text, if what you are trying to do is add the accidentals within a stream of (say) Times New Roman. The NWC font is intended for use within NWC.

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #10 –
At least the Insert Symbol-trick works fine. The symbols we're after are at the bottom, a bit to the left.
 

Re: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals as text in Word

Reply #11 –
For those who can't get the numeric code to work, you could just find the appropriate symbols, insert them in a blank word document, and save it.  Then when you need the symbol, open the file and copy it into your document.  Might be easier than trying to remember which font had it.