Sound-spelling characters

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Guest

How do you display sound-spelling characters in Word? I'm looking for the symbols that represent long and short vowel sounds (straight, and curved dash, respectively), and the means to put those over a vowel.
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

The terms you are looking for a "macron" (long mark) and "breve" (short
mark). Vowels with these marks can be found in the Latin Extended-A
character set of many Unicode fonts, including the Windows core fonts Times
New Roman, Arial, and Courier New. Insert them using Insert | Symbol or any
of the other methods described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Surfer1 said:
How do you display sound-spelling characters in Word? I'm looking for the
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symbols that represent long and short vowel sounds (straight, and curved
dash, respectively), and the means to put those over a vowel.
 

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