Hi Doug:

 

Thanks. 

 

Here is a list of emoji codes to follow “U+” in Word and Outlook.  I only 
tested one, U+2614, ☔, but I would guess they all work.  I highlighted the code 
and then ALT x.  

 

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11438-emoji-var.pdf

 

Best regards,

Rich

 

 

From: Doug Powell <doug...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:51 AM
To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.

 

All,

 

I often wished for a way to simply "type" certain symbols within the text of a 
Word document instead of inserting graphics and then struggling with various 
text flow and alignment problems.  Today I discovered a neat way to insert the 
triangle exclamation point symbol as text within a document using unicode 
characters (Not sure why this never occurred to me before).

 

Open MS Word and simply type U+26A0, with no other punctuation or characters 
hit Alt-X and you get ⚠.  From here you may resize, bold or use font coloring 
as needed (italics are a little weird).  I believe this works in MS Word 2007 
and onward, probably in MS Outlook and it appears to be working right here in 
my gmail account.  These keystrokes do not work in MS Excel but you can 
copy/paste from a document as needed.  This successfully printed to a PDF files 
as well.  I have not tried using these codes in autocorrect just yet but 
hopefully that will work too.  Sorry, I cannot speak to other platforms or 
software, just MS products on this one.

 

With the vast array of unicode symbols, this opens a whole realm of 
possibilities for me when writing company documents and procedures.

 

All the best, Doug

 

 

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Douglas E Powell

doug...@gmail.com <mailto:doug...@gmail.com> 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01


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