On Thursday April 26 2007 3:56 pm, Johnny Andersson wrote:
> A very long time ago, I used MS Word and MS Excel all the time.
> When using its autocorrection I was allowed to include things like
> fonts, size etc, so I could make things like a P with a ring around
> it, just like an (r), but a P instead of R. You can see this
> character on almost every CD etc. Unfortunately it seems like the
> (P) is only available in the Webdings font (I know it's supposed to
> be included in ordinary unicode fonts, but obviously I don't have
> any of those installed. With Word (and Excel I think) I could just
> let the format of one (or more) character be included in the
> autocorrect list.
>
> I thought I could do that in OpenOffice.org too, since there is a
> Text Only check box, but even if I uncheck it, it doesn't seem like
> the format is included. How is this supposed to work? Is it a bug
> or is there just not a feature like that in OpenOffice.org yet?
> Word 97 has it... =)
>
> In the (P) example, I can make it happen, but I have to manually
> change the font to Webdings, otherwise it will only be a square.
>
> I wish OpenOffice.org would do the following when I (and this is
> only an example) entered (P):
> 1. Replace (P) by the U+F0E8 character.
> 2. Apply the Webdings to that character.
> 3. Make sure that the font is set back to whatever it was before,
> for the following characters.
>
> If the paragraph style is changed for that particular paragraph, it
> would be nice if the font didn't change for that particular
> character.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
>
> Johnny Andersson
Have you thought about using a character style for this? You can
assign Webdings as the font for this one character while all of the
rest of the paragraph uses a different font.
Dan
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