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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Word4 Symbol Font Error
Message-ID: <918@aoa.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 18:00:10 GMT
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Organization: Adaptive Optics assoc., Cambridge, Ma
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Hi.  This is mainly a question for Microsoft Corp, whom Icant get 
thru to on the support line.
I have Word4 on a SE, in general everything ok.  The problem is in
trying to use the keyboard shorthand to switch into Symbol font.
I hit Command-Shift-Q and the next character comes up in Symbol
font just like it should.  Trouble is, the NEXT character doesn't. 
Howver,  if I move the cursor right behind the Symbol character 
immediately after typing it and click there, THEN the Symbol "takes"
and I can keep typing in Symbol Font.  Curioser: that's what happens
when I'm in Plain Text.  If I first do something like going into
"superscript", then hit CmdShftQ, Symbol font "takes" the way it
should.  
If I select Symbol from the menu, it works of course.
Now, If I do CmdShftQ and immediately look at the Fonts menu, it
tells me I'm in the Plain Text font, whatever that may be.

Is this "just" a bug? Is there a fix? 
thankx.

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