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Subject:Word Q: Plus sign in a circle? From:"Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:15:54 -0400
Henry Vandelinde wondered: <<I need to put a plus sign in a circle in a doc.
Any idea how?>>
Yup. If you're using Word for Windows, choose Insert-->Symbol, and select
the Symbols font. The symbol you're looking for appears in the third column
from the right of the "Insert symbol" dialog box, located at the third row
from the bottom. (That's in Win98; you may have to search a bit further if
you're using a different version of Windows.) I imagine that comparable
fonts exist for most other platforms.
If you're willing to fake it and avoid the problems that arise with using
specific symbol fonts (e.g., differing character sets on different
computers, increased file size from including the font), you can always
build an ASCII equivalent: (+). That's a reasonable first whack at the
problem, but any decent software should let you kern the parentheses closer
together and muck about with the font size of the + until you create
something that more closely resembles a single symbol (rather than 3
characters). Similarly, you might be able to type a capital letter O next to
a + sign and kern the two together until they overlap; if your software
offers an "overstrike" mode that lets you display two characters in a single
space, that might also provide satisfactory results, though it provides much
less control over the final image. Once you've created something
satisfactory, you can then copy and paste it to your heart's content.
--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
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