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10-07-2007, 03:03 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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| | | male / female symbols
I regularly write up reports and tables from my field survey work and was wondering if anyone has come across a text symbol for the male circle/arrow sign and the female circle/cross symbol that I could copy and paste into my work?
they don't seem to exist despite the numerous other symbols available....  |
10-07-2007, 03:46 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
Hi, some fonts, mostly unicode or opentype ones, do actually have these lurking in the alt/shift characters.
The easiest way is to load a symbol font and then just select that font to get the symbols.
This truetype one has male/female signs at "M" & "F" as well as some other useful ones: PC version Mac version
I've not tried the PC one, but the Mac version works fine on my laptop. |
10-07-2007, 03:48 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
Hi Gill,
do you use microsoft word for your reports?
Carol.
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10-07-2007, 03:53 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
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Originally Posted by zharca  Hi, some fonts, mostly unicode or opentype ones, do actually have these lurking in the alt/shift characters.
The easiest way is to load a symbol font and then just select that font to get the symbols.
This truetype one has male/female signs at "M" & "F" as well as some other useful ones: PC version Mac version
I've not tried the PC one, but the Mac version works fine on my laptop. | I've just installed the PC version, it works fine. Thanks for the link.  |
10-07-2007, 04:09 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
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Originally Posted by buzfuz8149 Hi Gill,
do you use microsoft word for your reports?
Carol. | Hi buzfuz!
I use 'word' to do my stuff. Is there a way to use symbols in Word?
Many thanks.
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10-07-2007, 04:58 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
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Originally Posted by zharca Hi, some fonts, mostly unicode or opentype ones, do actually have these lurking in the alt/shift characters.
The easiest way is to load a symbol font and then just select that font to get the symbols.
This truetype one has male/female signs at "M" & "F" as well as some other useful ones: PC version Mac version
I've not tried the PC one, but the Mac version works fine on my laptop. | Brilliant, thanks for this, much appreciated I shall have a go when I'm back in the office |
10-07-2007, 04:59 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
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Originally Posted by buzfuz8149 Hi Gill,
do you use microsoft word for your reports?
Carol. | Yes indeed I do for all its confusing complexity!! |
10-07-2007, 05:01 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
Please forgive a dumb question  , but how do you install fonts on a PC?
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10-07-2007, 05:22 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
I use word and if you go into insert on the menu bar there should be an option for symbols - this opens and special characters are available including male/female symbols.
Carol.
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10-07-2007, 07:44 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
For me, in Word - Alt+11 and Alt+12 work - ♂ ♀ - see! |
10-07-2007, 07:46 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
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Originally Posted by Tursiops2 Please forgive a dumb question , but how do you install fonts on a PC? | Go to 'settings' at the bottom left 'start' button; go to 'Control Panel'; Go to 'Fonts; click ' 'files' (top left) chose 'install new font'. |
10-07-2007, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott For me, in Word - Alt+11 and Alt+12 work - ♂ ♀ - see! | This also works in Excel and Access - I haven't tried it for any other programmes. I should imagine that people are not still using Windows 95 and other old versions but it did not work on them! |
10-07-2007, 08:17 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
You can find these and many other symbols in Character Map (charmap.exe). Should be on your hard drive. My copy is in C:\windows\dllcache. Copy and paste if there isn't a short cut
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31-07-2007, 04:18 PM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
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Originally Posted by thunder You can find these and many other symbols in Character Map (charmap.exe). Should be on your hard drive. My copy is in C:\windows\dllcache. Copy and paste if there isn't a short cut
henrya | Also, if you go to the start menu, click on "run", then type in "charmap.exe" and click OK it will come up.
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07-08-2007, 10:16 AM
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| | | Re: male / female symbols
I don't know if this helps - I'm a member of a local group here in Reading, and sometimes have to write similar reports and articles.
If you're using Microsoft Word, then simply click on "Insert" on the toolbar, then click on "symbols". As I tend to use "Arial" typeface, I keep the font as this and then scroll to "Miscellaneous Dingbats" in the subset. You'll find the male and female symbols about three quarters of the way down.
I think they're also in other fonts as well, but can be accessed the same way.
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