Creating Symbol

[Guest]

I am using an Excel spreadsheet as a database for generating work orders. I need to insert a custom symbol into a cell. While I can create the symbol, essentially a diamond with and S in the center, I cannot actually insert it into a cell or find any way to save this as a custom symbol. The software that generates the workorder will not recognize anything from the database other than what is part of the cell body. Is there a way to create custom symbols in Excel?

Thank you

 

[filky]

How did you create the symbol? Using the windows Char set or with som
other tool

 

[jaf]

Hi,
Autoshapes with the drawing toolbar will get you a diamond you can put text into. (like the flowchart symbols)
But you can't insert them into a cell. They float over the SS.
I looked at the unicode website and didn't see anything close. www.unicode.org
Your best bet is to create a custom symbol and add it to your charmap.

See the post by Jim Cone in this thread. (win xp) Don't know if other o/s have this program. http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&...roup=*excel*&as_uauthors=jaf&lr=&num=50&hl=en


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John
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