Is there a way to print a list of symbol shortcuts

[Guest]

My very curious son thinks it's cool to insert symbols and would like a
listing of symbols rather than going through the drop down menus is there any
way to generate such a list?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you run a macro containing the following code it will show you the
Alt+numeric keypad sequence that can be used to insert each symbol

' Macro created 12-08-98 by Doug Robbins to list symbols that can be
inserted via Alt+keypad

'

ActiveDocument.Tables.Add Range:=Selection.Range, NumRows:=1,
NumColumns:=3

Selection.TypeText Text:="Alt + Numeric Keypad"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Selection.TypeText Text:="Normal Font"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Selection.TypeText Text:="Symbol Font"

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Symbol = 33

While Symbol < 256

Selection.TypeText Text:="0" & LTrim$(Str$(Symbol))

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

With Selection

.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol, Font:="Normal",
Unicode:=False

End With

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

With Selection

.InsertSymbol CharacterNumber:=Symbol, Font:="Symbol",
Unicode:=False

End With

Symbol = Symbol + 1

Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCell

Wend


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP