On Windows, there is also a Character Map utility in Accessories > System Tools that lets you look through the various fonts for characters you want and put them on the clip-board for pasting into your document. I have it pinned to the Windows XP/7 Start Menu. (I must remember to put it on the Task Bar on Windows 8).
Some fonts have quite extensive sets of Unicode Characters, including Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode (a favorite for me) along with special fonts (WebDings, WingDings, Symbol, MT Extra, ...), along with the free fonts that LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice install. For certain cases where I use some symbols repeatedly, I make up a document that serves as a palette that I can copy and paste from. Sometime I group 3-4 symbols together (such as ¬∀∃∧∨→↔), paste wherever I need one of them and delete the unwanted ones. It can be easier than roaming around in an Insertion palette. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Doug [mailto:dmcgarr...@optonline.net] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 23:25 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [Inserting special characters (and Word Perfect)] On 01/21/2013 01:28 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:14 20/01/2013 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: >> While we're at it: The other thing WP can do (Ctrl-W) is insert all >> sorts of characters that are not on the keyboard, and many are not >> attainable by the Compose key either. I think there are 10 screens >> worth of characters and symbols, each one having some 40 or so >> available. At some point, MS Word actually copied this verbatim, >> Ctrl-W and all, but then they took it out--maybe the WP people sued >> them. That must have been about 1990. So I don't know if OO can put >> that feature in, or if WP would sue them. But it sure is handy >> sometimes. > > Do you mean like Insert | Special Character...? If you like keyboard > shortcuts, it's Alt+I, P. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > Very good, Brian. I didn't know that this was there. I'm not sure if it's as complete as the WP version, but it's close, if it's not equal. --doug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
