Microsoft KB Archive/160070

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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:

  1. On the Insert menu, click Symbol.
  2. 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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