Help with Word / Microsoft Office
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Help with Word / Microsoft Office
Someone on here must know how to do this.
I am currently completing a job application.
Where do I find or what is the character code for a tick?
I have tried putting a cross but it doesn't look right.
What do you do?
Thanks
I am currently completing a job application.
Where do I find or what is the character code for a tick?
I have tried putting a cross but it doesn't look right.
What do you do?
Thanks
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
Hi Ian
Try go to font style, in the drop down box choose windings2, press & hold the shift key, press letter 'R' should be a tick in a box and 'P' should be a tick.
Try go to font style, in the drop down box choose windings2, press & hold the shift key, press letter 'R' should be a tick in a box and 'P' should be a tick.
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
It's hidden from general view these days, but in Windows 3.1, you would use a utility called Character Map. It's still there and comes up if you type "character map" into the Start "Search" box. The font "Wingdings" has many weird and wonderful characters which includes ü. This shows as a tick in the Wingdings font.Ian Jamieson wrote: I have tried putting a cross but it doesn't look right.
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
Thanks.
It looks a lot better.
It looks a lot better.
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It also looks as if the producers of s/w & h/w (someone has asked why there is still no specific key for 'tick') have not acknowledged the rise of the tick-box culture, and that the simple practice of getting the designers of forms to try to fill in their own creations before inflicting them on the general public is not being followed. (Unless, of course, there is a conspiracy to slow down the rate at which forms are completed and returned to certain organisations.)
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
Insert / Symbol is another way of doing it.
You can also select a tick as your bullet-point symbol: Format / Bullets and Numbering / Customize
Admittedly I have quite an old version.
You can also select a tick as your bullet-point symbol: Format / Bullets and Numbering / Customize
Admittedly I have quite an old version.
Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
Can anyone tell me, in a word, the number of ways to skin a cat, please?
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
In a word or in MS Word?
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This isn't it but a wordless response might be the best answer.
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
I think the problem was that you need to know that the tick is in wingdings. Otherwise there are too many fonts to look through.
Once you know where to look there are lots of ways of getting there.
Once you know where to look there are lots of ways of getting there.
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Re: Help with Word / Microsoft Office
I have found some:
✓, ✔, ☑
You are welcome to copy any of these ticks and reuse them by pasting. That will reduce my carbon footprint.
✓, ✔, ☑
You are welcome to copy any of these ticks and reuse them by pasting. That will reduce my carbon footprint.
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