Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.
Mike: For MS Word 2010, click INSERT-SYMBOL-MORE SYMBOLS then scroll through the large number of available sample symbols. There is an entry box for Unicode numbers, but entering 26A0 isn’t accepted, so maybe this warning symbol hasn’t been included in 2010’s updates. Ed Price WB6WSN Chula Vista, CA USA From: Mike Sherman [mailto:msherma...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 2:56 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. Rich, Doug, et al -- I was absolutely unable to type U+26A0 in Microsoft Word 2010 (running under Windows 7)) and get the exclamation point triangle to insert. I was able to get other symbols, such as the Aquarius symbol U+2652, to work. However, I can't get Rich's U+2614 to insert, either. My IS tech support guy suggested that Microsoft Word 2010 simply has not been updated to recognize this U+26A0 combination. Has anyone been able to get U+26A0 this to work in Microsoft Word? If so, what version? Rich: what versions of Word and Windows are you running? Some handy references in my quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters and https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf Thanks! Mike Sherman Graco Inc. From: "Richard Nute" To: "EMC-PSTC" Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 3:54:03 PM Subject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. 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 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 wiU+2614shed 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 -- Douglas E Powell doug...@gmail.com<mailto:doug...@gmail.com> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org<mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe)<http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html> List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas sdoug...@ieee.org<mailto:sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org<mailto:mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher j.bac...@ieee.org<mailto:j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald dhe...@gmail.com<mailto:dhe...@gmail.com> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org>> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe)<http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html>
Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.
Brian —Good point to keep in mind! I was actually simply trying to do this for an internal document that is not too critical. Neat trick; frustrating that I couldn’t use it. Mike Sherman Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App-- Original Message --From: Brian O'ConnellTo: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORGSent: July 3, 2018 at 5:56 PMSubject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.Insertion of emoji, uncommon fonts from external tables, extended unicodes, etc into on-line documents can be problematic. And ability of a word processor running on Windoze, to find the correct table in a corporate setting, is also problematic.If for marketing, not much of an issue. If for a safety engineering publication, you might be making an irreproducible document. The First Order and the Klingon Empires will not tolerate an emoji in an official document, so only useable by a limited subset of some earthlings.Join the Empire. Crush the rebellion.BrianFrom: Mike Sherman [mailto:msherma...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 2:56 PMTo: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORGSubject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.Rich, Doug, et al --I was absolutely unable to type U+26A0 in Microsoft Word 2010 (running under Windows 7)) and get the exclamation point triangle to insert. I was able to get other symbols, such as the Aquarius symbol U+2652, to work. However, I can't get Rich's U+2614 to insert, either.My IS tech support guy suggested that Microsoft Word 2010 simply has not been updated to recognize this U+26A0 combination.Has anyone been able to get U+26A0 this to work in Microsoft Word? If so, what version?Rich: what versions of Word and Windows are you running?Some handy references in my quest:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_charactersandhttps://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdfThanks!Mike ShermanGraco Inc.From: "Richard Nute" To: "EMC-PSTC" Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 3:54:03 PMSubject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. 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 Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 11:51 AMTo: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORGSubject: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. All, I often wiU+2614shed 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 -- Douglas E Powelldoug...@gmail.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01-This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at:http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.htmlAttachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc.Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe)List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.htmlFor help, send mail to the list administrators:Scott Douglas Mike Cantwell For policy questions, send mail to:Jim Bacher: David Heald: - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee
Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.
Insertion of emoji, uncommon fonts from external tables, extended unicodes, etc into on-line documents can be problematic. And ability of a word processor running on Windoze, to find the correct table in a corporate setting, is also problematic. If for marketing, not much of an issue. If for a safety engineering publication, you might be making an irreproducible document. The First Order and the Klingon Empires will not tolerate an emoji in an official document, so only useable by a limited subset of some earthlings. Join the Empire. Crush the rebellion. Brian From: Mike Sherman [mailto:msherma...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 2:56 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. Rich, Doug, et al -- I was absolutely unable to type U+26A0 in Microsoft Word 2010 (running under Windows 7)) and get the exclamation point triangle to insert. I was able to get other symbols, such as the Aquarius symbol U+2652, to work. However, I can't get Rich's U+2614 to insert, either. My IS tech support guy suggested that Microsoft Word 2010 simply has not been updated to recognize this U+26A0 combination. Has anyone been able to get U+26A0 this to work in Microsoft Word? If so, what version? Rich: what versions of Word and Windows are you running? Some handy references in my quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters and https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf Thanks! Mike Sherman Graco Inc. From: "Richard Nute" To: "EMC-PSTC" Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 3:54:03 PM Subject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. 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 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 wiU+2614shed 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 -- Douglas E Powell doug...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas Mike Cantwell For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: David Heald:
Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.
Rich, Doug, et al -- I was absolutely unable to type U+26A0 in Microsoft Word 2010 (running under Windows 7)) and get the exclamation point triangle to insert. I was able to get other symbols, such as the Aquarius symbol U+2652, to work. However, I can't get Rich's U+2614 to insert, either. My IS tech support guy suggested that Microsoft Word 2010 simply has not been updated to recognize this U+26A0 combination. Has anyone been able to get U+26A0 this to work in Microsoft Word? If so, what version? Rich: what versions of Word and Windows are you running? Some handy references in my quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters and https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf Thanks! Mike Sherman Graco Inc. - Original Message - From: "Richard Nute" To: "EMC-PSTC" Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 3:54:03 PM Subject: Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text. 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 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 wiU+2614shed 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 -- Douglas E Powell doug...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas sdoug...@ieee.org Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald dhe...@gmail.com - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas Mike Cantwell For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: David Heald:
Re: [PSES] Handy tip for inserting symbols in document text.
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 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 -- Douglas E Powell doug...@gmail.com <mailto:doug...@gmail.com> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas Mike Cantwell For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: David Heald:
[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 -- Douglas E Powell doug...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas Mike Cantwell For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: David Heald:
