Where is the centerline symbol for use in Word?

Nuclear_Dave

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Dec 30, 2009, 4:03:01 PM12/30/09

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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Dec 30, 2009, 5:29:58 PM12/30/09

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I do not know of one, but you can create one by typing

c

then hold down the Ctrl Key and press F9 to insert a pair of field
delimiters inside of which you type

ADVANCE \d 2 \l4 (note that is a lower case L before the 4)

and then outside of the closing } type L

so that you have

c{ ADVANCE \d 2 \l4 }L

Hold down the Alt key and press F9 to toggle off the display of the field
codes. and you will have something that should resemble what you are looking
for. You may want to adjust the font size of the c and L and also play
around with the offsets 2 and 4

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Peter T. Daniels

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Dec 30, 2009, 10:45:45 PM12/30/09

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If you can tell me what a centerline symbol is supposed to look like,
I can hunt for it in Unicode. The coding makes it sound like a c on
the line crossed by an L that goes below the line? But are they
supposed to look like letters, or are they supposed to be an arc and
two lines?

On Dec 30, 5:29 pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"

<d...@REMOVECAPSmvps.org> wrote:
> I do not know of one, but you can create one by typing
>
> c
>
> then hold down the Ctrl Key and press F9 to insert a pair of field
> delimiters inside of which you type
>
> ADVANCE \d 2 \l4 (note that is a lower case L before the 4)
>
> and then outside of the closing } type L
>
> so that you have
>
> c{ ADVANCE \d 2 \l4 }L
>
> Hold down the Alt key and press F9 to toggle off the display of the field
> codes. and you will have something that should resemble what you are looking
> for. You may want to adjust the font size of the c and L and also play
> around with the offsets 2 and 4
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
>
> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
> services on a paid consulting basis.
>
> Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
>

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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Dec 31, 2009, 12:24:07 AM12/31/09

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It is pretty much what that field construction creates, a small c
intersected by the vertical part of an L.

Actually Googling for it, turns up
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2104/fontsupport.htm

So typing 2104 and then pressing Alt+x will insert it for you.

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Greg Maxey

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Dec 31, 2009, 6:13:29 PM12/31/09

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It looks like the Centre Line Symbol that is shown when you are using
certain unicode fonts and you select Insert>Symbol>Font(normal text)
>SubSet(Letterlike Symbols).

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