Microsoft KB Archive/160070

= WD97: Symbol Dialog Different from Previous Versions =

Article ID: 160070

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q160070



SUMMARY
This article describes how the Symbol dialog box in Microsoft Word 97 is different from the Symbol dialog box in previous versions of Word.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft Word 97 supports the Unicode character set. As a result of this new functionality, the Symbol dialog box in Word 97 has the following characteristics:

 International fonts do not appear in the Font list in Word. The international font sets previously available included the following:

Arial CE

Arial Cyr

Arial Greek

Courier New CE

Courier New Cyr

Courier Greek

Times New Roman CE

Times New Roman Cyr

Times New Roman Greek

Although these fonts are installed on your computer, Word does not make them available for use.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

159341 Word 97: International Fonts Don't Appear in Font List

 Fonts are separated into different subsets. The subset list is unavailable if the currently selected font does not contain subcategories.

NOTE: Symbol fonts do not contain subcategories.

Subsets that may be available include the following:

Alphabetic Presentation Forms

Arrows

Basic Greek

Basic Latin

Block Elements

Box Drawing

Currency Symbols

Cyrillic

General Punctuation

Geometric Shapes

Latin Extended Additional

Latin Extended-A

Latin Extended-B

Latin-1

Letterlike Symbols

Mathematical Operators

Miscellaneous Dingbats

Miscellaneous Technical

Number Forms

Private Use Area

Spacing Modifier Letters

Superscripts and Subscripts

NOTE: The Symbol character map expands based on the font selected. You can scroll through the list of displayed characters or by selecting a subset. When you do this, the selection will jump to the start of the subset.

To make the Subset list available, do the following:  On the Insert menu, click Symbol. In the Symbol dialog box, select (normal text) in the Font list.

The Subset list appears to the right of the Font list. 

For more information about unicode, visit the Unicode Web site at:

http://www.unicode.org

Keywords: KB160070

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