Hi Rasmus,
It's possible that your title may have been what through people off :)
There isn't any particular support for OpenType in Word 2000, but,
as it basically derives its font information from the operating system
(with some exceptions) and when you can see the fonts in either the
Word font dropdown, the Word Font Menu (which you can add to
your menu toolbar (Tools=>Customize=>Commands,
select [Built-In Menus] in the left windows and [Font] in the
right and drag it) or in Insert Symbol then then you're past the
only limitation that comes to mind on having the fonts available in
Word 2000.
You might have an issue though sending those documents to other
folks who may not have the Open Type Master font installed.
I don't know offhand if you can embed characters from those fonts or how the
Tools=>Options=>Compatability=> [Font Substitutions] would
affect your documents when received by others who did not have
the fonts available.
The questions you raised about the shortcuts though would seem
to be basically, doesn't Word let you use the numeric keypad for
entering Unicode character codes as it does ANSI characters.
The answer is no, they didn't implement it that way (sigh).
In Word 97 & 2000 they defined the unicode characters as hex values, which
sort of eliminated the standard numeric keypad <g>
You can assign a keyboard shortcut to any character in any font that you
can view in Insert=>Symbol, using the [Shortcut Key...] button you'll
see there. In the Word status bar when you select a character there you'll
see a Hex value for inserting the glyph (Arial Unicode MS is the Unicode 2
glyph set in a MS Office provided font to help you look through the various
values).
For macros, I would guess, but haven't worked with it, that it would be
possible to build on the base of the one in this article where you could
type in the value and have the character inserted in the document by
converting the code.
In this article the macro shows how to use a decimal value representation
of the Unicode characters (would be nice if MS would have shown that
in the Insert=>Symbol dialog along with the hex and set this up to be
hooked to the numeric keypad approach ) to be able search for Unicode characters
in a document.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q211/4/35.ASP
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q185/2/90.ASP
(any of you macro guru types care to try this one? I know there are times when
I could use the ability to enter the Unicode characters from the keypad or
in a box on a toolbar for example to insert a character in a document)
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<<"Rasmus Bruun" <r...@db.dk> wrote in message news:8s01fa$f26$1@news.inet.tele.dk...
I am running English versions of Windows 2000 Pro and Word 2000, and I have
just bought Adobes new OpenType typeface "Warnock Pro". However, I have
found out that it is not at all too easy to use the characters outside of
the normal character range.
Can you give me a tip regarding using oldstyle figures and small caps? I
have found out that I can make entries in the AutoCorrect > Replace text as
you type-list so fx ½0 is changed to OsF zero and ½a is changed to SC a, but
isn't there a keyboard short-cut for inserting unicode characters as with
the normal ALT+0number for the ASCII characters? I would like to make macros
for the characters so I could type ALT+3 to get a OsF 3 etc. but I don't
know how to access the characters.
kind regards,
Rasmus Bruun, Denmark>>
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Hope that helps,
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