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From: briand@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 questions
Keywords: Word, ASCII
Message-ID: <4247@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 89 21:52:33 GMT
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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>Does anyone out there in netland know if the "code" feature
>has been excised from Word 4.0?  I can't seem to invoke it in
>the way 3.02 did it...selecting a char and clicking in the
>page # box.  

Try Command-Option-Q when the selection is between characters. It lets you
type in a code. If you select a character and type Command-Option-Q, it tells
you the code of that character.

There is a Commands... command to do this: Paste Special Character. The entire
feature is undocumented. We found it because one person in the department was
VERY persistent, and discovered Command-Option-Q. With that in hand, we tried
to find the equivalent command. We filed until we tried to assign the Command-
Option-Q sequence to another command, when it asked us if we wanted to de-assign
it from the Paste Special Character command. Voila - we found the magic command
name. Armed with all that, we looked it up in the documentation. COMPLETELY
undocumented.

Thanks, Microsoft. Thpppppt....

BTW, has anyone else noticed that if you install the new Adobe NFNT numbering
scheme for the Symbol font, that equations break in Word. Those stupid dolts
at Microsoft STILL think that font assignment should be saved by number only!
Stupid is one thing, viciously stubbornly stupid should be boycotted. . .


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-Brian Diehm
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