How do I insert symbols not in the symbol list? in Word General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              Shawna 12/9/2005 3:09 PM PST   Question   I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down e with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone help?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suzanne S. Barnhill 12/9/2005 3:33 PM PST   Answer   Arial Unicode MS font contains characters from the IPA Extensions character subset. I see the schwa but not with a dot, nor the u you describe. You can add dots using an overstrike field; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... > I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down e > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone help?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Shawna 12/9/2005 4:07 PM PST   Thank you very much. The overstrike option did exactly what I wanted it to. Excellent information. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > Arial Unicode MS font contains characters from the IPA Extensions character > subset. I see the schwa but not with a dot, nor the u you describe. You can > add dots using an overstrike field; see > http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > all may benefit. > > "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... > > I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down > e > > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone > help? > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suzanne S. Barnhill 12/9/2005 4:31 PM PST   Glad I could help. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C2234BB4-9538-4A8F-9CFA-DA752768BAE6@microsoft.com... > Thank you very much. The overstrike option did exactly what I wanted it to. > Excellent information. > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > > > Arial Unicode MS font contains characters from the IPA Extensions character > > subset. I see the schwa but not with a dot, nor the u you describe. You can > > add dots using an overstrike field; see > > http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. > > > > -- > > Suzanne S. Barnhill > > Microsoft MVP (Word) > > Words into Type > > Fairhope, Alabama USA > > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > > all may benefit. > > > > "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... > > > I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down > > e > > > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone > > help? > > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Shawna 12/12/2005 7:12 AM PST   Hi, Suzanne This works great but it leaves a line under the dot. Do you know how to get rid of the line? Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > Arial Unicode MS font contains characters from the IPA Extensions character > subset. I see the schwa but not with a dot, nor the u you describe. You can > add dots using an overstrike field; see > http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > all may benefit. > > "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... > > I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down > e > > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone > help? > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suzanne S. Barnhill 12/12/2005 10:15 AM PST   Answer   What are you using for the dot? Is Underline formatting selected in the field? If you can, copy the contents of your field into a message (select the text between the field braces of the field code as seen by pressing Alt+F9). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22AAEE4E-63D9-4727-ADC8-72DF843C53AB@microsoft.com... > Hi, Suzanne > > This works great but it leaves a line under the dot. Do you know how to get > rid of the line? Thanks. > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > > > Arial Unicode MS font contains characters from the IPA Extensions character > > subset. I see the schwa but not with a dot, nor the u you describe. You can > > add dots using an overstrike field; see > > http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. > > > > -- > > Suzanne S. Barnhill > > Microsoft MVP (Word) > > Words into Type > > Fairhope, Alabama USA > > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > > all may benefit. > > > > "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... > > > I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down > > e > > > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone > > help? > > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Shawna 12/12/2005 11:18 AM PST   Yes, I am using the underline and it is underlining the dot also. Ok, I have it fixed now. Thank you so much. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > What are you using for the dot? Is Underline formatting selected in the > field? If you can, copy the contents of your field into a message (select > the text between the field braces of the field code as seen by pressing > Alt+F9). > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > all may benefit. > > "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:22AAEE4E-63D9-4727-ADC8-72DF843C53AB@microsoft.com... > > Hi, Suzanne > > > > This works great but it leaves a line under the dot. Do you know how to > get > > rid of the line? Thanks. > > > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > > > > > Arial Unicode MS font contains characters from the IPA Extensions > character > > > subset. I see the schwa but not with a dot, nor the u you describe. You > can > > > add dots using an overstrike field; see > > > http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. > > > > > > -- > > > Suzanne S. Barnhill > > > Microsoft MVP (Word) > > > Words into Type > > > Fairhope, Alabama USA > > > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > newsgroup so > > > all may benefit. > > > > > > "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > > news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... > > > > I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside > down > > > e > > > > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can > anyone > > > help? > > > > > > > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           JEphonetician 6/18/2008 1:21 PM PST   I don't find the IPA symbols in the symbol list in 2007Word, which I started using a couple of days ago. I'm a phonetician so it is a must to be able to use them in word texts. Could anybody help, please?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Herb Tyson [MVP] 6/18/2008 1:50 PM PST   Are you using LaserIPA, or something else? If LaserIPA, according to this: http://www.linguistsoftware.com/liu.htm The version of Uniscribe that ships with Word 2007 (Office 2007) does not support the OpenType Layout Features in the IPA LS Uni font. Letters or symbols without any diacritics may be typed in Word 2007, but diacritics cannot be added. Therefore, Word 2007 does not support this font. If you're using something else that also requires support for OpenType, this might also be the problem. If you're using SIL IPA93, go to this page and Ctrl+F for "word 2007": http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=FontFAQ_IPA93 Otherwise, Google-search ipa and "word 2007". -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "JEphonetician" <JEphonetician@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:43BEE9BE-EBD3-45C0-9E31-FEC94B355352@microsoft.com... >I don't find the IPA symbols in the symbol list in 2007Word, which I >started > using a couple of days ago. I'm a phonetician so it is a must to be able > to > use them in word texts. Could anybody help, please?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suzanne S. Barnhill 6/18/2008 4:25 PM PST   What font are you using? Times New Roman, which was the default font in earlier versions of Word, and also Arial, which was widely used in those versions, both contain the IPA Extensions Unicode Character set. Apparently Calibri, the default font in Word 2007, does not include this character set. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "JEphonetician" <JEphonetician@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:43BEE9BE-EBD3-45C0-9E31-FEC94B355352@microsoft.com... >I don't find the IPA symbols in the symbol list in 2007Word, which I >started > using a couple of days ago. I'm a phonetician so it is a must to be able > to > use them in word texts. Could anybody help, please? >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           grammatim 6/18/2008 5:55 PM PST   You should download the SIL's Gentium font, which includes the complete IPA, lots of non-IPA phonetic symbols and odd letters (never before have I been able to type a wynn or a yogh), as well as compatibly-designed characters for Greek, Cyrillic, and Vietnamese. (The only quirk I've found must be a failing in Unicode: for theta and beta, there are no IPA symbols, you have to get them from Greek.) On Jun 18, 4:22 pm, JEphonetician <JEphonetic...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I don't find the IPA symbols in the symbol list in 2007Word, which I started > using a couple of days ago.  I'm a phonetician so it is a must to be able to > use them in word texts.  Could anybody help, please?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Jezebel 12/9/2005 3:40 PM PST   You can create your own using an Advance fields to combine the base character with the diacritic. If you have only a few to do, that's probably acceptable -- and you can assign the field sequence to an AutoText entry with a keycode shortcut. Schwa and the under-character dot are certainly in there somewhere; don't know about the inverted u. Alternatively, download and install a phonetic font. "Shawna" <Shawna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7565221A-4F13-4BDE-AF70-24753EC0489A@microsoft.com... >I need to write out pronunciation of words and cannot find an upside down e > with a dot at the bottom of the e or a u with a dot on top. Can anyone > help?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies