Question on Editing Symbols...

[Guest]

I want to make the a small "pi" symbol larger. I do not want to use the
capital b/c I like the small symbal much better; however, when added to a
word document, it is way too small. In order to change the symbol to a size
which is equivalent to the other text, I end up going from 12 pt Times New
Roman to 18 pt so that it is the same size. Needless to say, this screws up
my line spacing.

Is there an easy way to do what I am attempting to do without having to
specify every time the line space must be "exactly" ___. I use shortcut keys,
and I know how to program the keys to pull in the symbol, but I cannot seem
to find a way to make the symbol larger.

Thanks for any help you may provide.

Will

 

[Guest]

You can do it as follows: Open Word and click New. Then create a macro (Tools
-> Macro -> Macros). In the dialog box opened name the macro, say, PI and
click Create. It will open VBA editor. In the right panel copy the following
code

Sub PI()
'
' PI Macro
' jcz - 23.03.2006
'
Selection.Font.Size = 18
Selection.InsertSymbol Font:="Symbol", _
CharacterNumber:=-3984, Unicode:=True
With Selection.ParagraphFormat
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceExactly
.LineSpacing = 14
End With
Selection.Font.Size = 12
End Sub

Without closing the word connect the macro you just created to a shortcut,
e.g. Alt+p . You can find how to do this at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm .

Triggered by your question I have just wrote the macro and and it works just
fine. Now, whenever you pres Alt + p, a small PI symbol is inserted in size
18 and the line spacing is kept at 14. I assumed you write using single
spacing, font size 12. If not, you can adjust line spacing, font size and the
symbol size in the short code above. If you save your new macro in
Normal.dot, then you will be able to use the shortcut in all your new Word
documents.