RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Fei Min Lorente
Thank you for the directions to the Character Palette. That works for me, but my colleague is still getting a question mark when she tries to insert the infinity symbol. There’s obviously something wrong with her setup. Yes, the Character Palette is crude, so it really helped to know that 221E

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Fred Ridder
Windows Character Map should work, but not all systems have it installed. My company's IT department, for example, does not include it in the standard corporate desktop image. But the necessary executable *is* present in all Windows 7 system installations, and you can install it as a "Windows co

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Lise Bible
Fei Min, I'm on Frame 8, so I have no solutions for Frame 10, but have you tried using Windows Character Map (under Programs>Accessories>System Tools) as a workaround? I was able to find and copy the ∞ symbol from there. Not a terribly elegant solution, but an alternative to copy/paste from Word...

Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Fei Min Lorente
I'm working in FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7 and I cannot insert the infinity symbol. According to the FrameMaker character set documentation, it is Unicode 221E, but perhaps all that information is obsolete now. In any case, I tried holding down Alt while I pressed +221e, and all I got was the Edi

Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

2014-02-13 Thread Carrie Baker
Thanks for the tips. It turns out that the laptop will only be available at the beginning of April (it is something that someone is giving back). So I will keep this all in mind. Another issue is that I have added various small add-ons to Frame over the years, and I have to reconstruct everything