Special character that is not in the 'insert sybol' list

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AnneH

In a piece of work I am currently doing I need to write a letter 't' with a
dot underneath it.
It's not in the 'insert symbol' list, so how should I do it?
 
Hi Anne,

try:

Sub Macro1()
Selection.InsertSymbol Font:="Arial", CharacterNumber:=7789,
Unicode:=True
End Sub

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Vista Small Business, Office XP
 
Insert an EQ field: { EQ \O(t,.) }

To insert the field delimiters, { }, press Ctrl+F9. Type the code as shown.

In the field code, format the period as "Lowered," say by 5 pt (on the
Character Spacing tab of the Font dialog box).

Press F9 to update. To show/hide the field code, press Alt+F9.

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I'm curious about where you found that character number, Helmut. My Arial
doesn't have that character range, and in Arial Unicode MS, it's in the CJK
Unified Ideographs character subset.
 
|> Selection.InsertSymbol Font:="Arial", _
|> CharacterNumber:=7789, _
|> Unicode:=True


Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
I'm curious about where you found that character number, Helmut.
My Arial doesn't have that character range,
Click to expand...

Mine neither... Word switches to Tahoma automatically when I use the code.
and in Arial Unicode MS, it's in the CJK Unified Ideographs
character subset.
Click to expand...

Helmut used the decimal code.
7789 = &H1E6D
which is in the "Latin Extended Additional" set.

Klaus
 
Latin Extended Additional is where I would expect to find it, since I have
vowels with dots below there in "(normal text)."
 
The t-underdot characters occur in very few fonts, because they are
used in the standard orthography of very few, if any, languages. (They
most commonly occur in "scientific" transliterations of Semitic and
South Asian languages.) Underdotted vowels occur in the standard
orthography of a number of West African languages.

A font that has preformed characters for a very large number of
letters with diacritics (accents, etc.) is Gentium, created by the
Summer Institute of Linguistics, and available as a free download at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
(if this doesn't show up as a link, just google Feeling Lucky "
gentium SIL " without the quotes).
 
Hi everybody,

maybe it is because I have a PC made in China,
just run-of-the-mill, no specific adaptations.
I didn't think much, just postet was the macro recorder recorded.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Vista Small Business, Office XP
 
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