Bridge Symbols in MS Word
Eric Leong
pasting from another document?
Thanks in advance.
Eric Leong
Travis Crump
I don't have access to MS Word, but since there are 20 versions of it
all with different UIs, OpenOffice should be close enough. It wasn't
hard to find the bridge symbols under Insert->Special Characters.
Abiword was similar[Insert->Symbol].
Travis
Eddy
From the menu bar choose Insert, select Symbol and than choose the
appropiate font (often Symbol), pick
the suit symbol and select insert again. It's possibe to put these
selections in a macro.
Eddy
Fred.
And, while you're at it change the font color to red and back again in
the heart and diamond macros, and associate the macros with keys. I
associate F4 through F8 with the suits, and use F9 to change the color
back to black in those sequences where the change back to black
doesn't quite make it.
Fred.
stefan f.
If you have Word 2007 or 2010, you will find a tutorial here
http://www.clairebridge.com/doc_pedagogiques/presentationsymboles.pps
(about 1,5 MB)
It is in french but even without knowledge of the language one
should be able to understand what is happening.
ciao stefan
Herb
SOME non-symbol fonts include the suit symbols (I assume that's what
you mean by 'a bridge symbol').
For properly configured fonts, including Arial and Times New Roman,
the suit symbols are located as follows:
Spade Unicode 2660
Club Unicode 2663
Heart Unicode 2665
Diamond Unicode 2666
They can be accessed and used directly by entering the Unicode value
and following it immediately by Alt-X.
For example: To insert a Spade symbol while using TNR or Arial, enter
2660 and follow it immediately by alt-X.
Not elegant, but somewhat shorter than going through the whole insert
symbol process.
There are also some fonts that have these symbols in more easily
accessible locations; but then you'd have to change fonts and then
return, and anywone receiving the document would have to have the same
font.
- Herb
Herb
Most of the major fonts distributed with Windows XP, Vista, or 7 do
include the symbols. Verdana, Corbel, etc.
To see if a given installed font has the symbols, you can run Charmap
(Start/Run/Charmap), select the font, change the "Group By" to
'Unicode Subrange', and in the ensuing little 'Group By' window,
select "Symbols and Dingbats".
If the symbols are present, they will be displayed. If you
double-click on the one you want, it will be copied, and can then be
pasted directly into your document with Ctrl-V. Charmap can be used to
find and access the potentially thousands of characters in any font
that are beyond the one or two hundred that have keyboard keys
associated with them.
- Herb
jogs
I tried it. Didn't work for me. Doesn't seem simpler
than cut and paste.
Just put the four symbols ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ on the top of the
page. Then cut and paste. That seems just as
easy.
New
In Word 2007, Insert Menu -> Symbol -> More Symbols.
In the dialog box, in the Symbols Tab, in the Font Drop Down Menu - chose
the Symbols Font.
There on Line 9 you will see all 4 suit symbols.
axm...@hotmail.com
I use the Arial Bridge font which directly maps []{} to the symbols
for HSCD. It is a hollow font so H and D are not so easy to pick out
of the text if you are looking for cards in the text. I prefer the
appearance of the solid font [from the arial character map] even
though for me it entails cut and paste [it's too much of a bother to
remap the keys with macros]
regards
axman
Henk B Pippel
I have Dutch version of Word.
It is possible with -insert- then symbol and you will find the c d h and
s symbols. In the past I marked them with a shortcut:
F9 is clubs
F10 is diamonds etc.
Henk
Nick France
Surprised at how complicated some are making this. I will assume you
have a version similar to mine. I click on insert and then symbol. I
set it Arial and scroll down and find the 4 suits. Click on one and
then click on ShortCut Key. I assign (Ctrl)+S for spades etc. I then
save it to Normal.dot for each symbol
Now anytime I want the symbol I just hold down Ctrl and type the
letter. You can assign whatever shortcut key you like.
Nick France
HoneyMonster
Indeed. Then (in either Open Office Writer or MS Word), one could quite
easily record a small macro for each, then add an item to the toolbar for
each of the four macros.
Screen shot at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6106778/suits.png
Note the icons towards the right hand end of the main toolbar.
jonathan23
Thanks for the tip.
I've managed to record the macros, but I'd be very interested to know how
one gets the suit symbol on the button in the toolbar in OpenOffice.org
Writer. I get the buttons coming up with the macro name which makes them
take up a lot of real estate in the toolbar and haven't quite figured out
how to change that (other than trying to rename my macros simply S, H, D,
and C, which would be my second choice).
Regards,
--
- Jon Campbell
Ottawa Canada
KWSchneider
What no one has mentioned here is that you should be using monospaced
fonts for hand display, else the hands will be displayed incorrectly
when showing in the conventional "box" format. My favorite font for
this purpose is the ubiquitously available "Courier New" [hex 2660,
2663, 2665, 2666].
Kurt
jackie...@gmail.com
The instruction to "use insert," and click on symbols (the one on the
right.
Then just scroll down until you find the bridge suits symbols that you
want.
Good luck.
HoneyMonster
Download some suitable icons. 16x16 pngs are best; I'll share mine if you
like.
Then in Writer, Tools -> Customize -> Modify -> Change Icon -> Import and
select it.
Bob's your uncle.
Screenshot II at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6106778/suits2.png
Herb
>>>
>>>>On 02/18/2011 05:28 PM, Eric Leong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>How does one enter a bridge symbol in MS Word without cutting and
>>>>>pasting from another document?
>>>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>Eric Leong
> Download some suitable icons. 16x16 pngs are best;
Absolutely not! PNG graphics are not scalable. Like any raster
graphic, they pixelate when the size is changed. See what a 16x16
graphic looks like when blown up to match a 24 point line of type.
Now if you'd suggested .eps, .ai, .cdr, .wmf, or .emf those might
work; but the user would still have what to me is a formidable PITA of
placing graphics accurately in a line of type.
> Then in Writer, Tools -> Customize -> Modify -> Change Icon -> Import and
> select it.
I'm not sure what 'Change Icon' means or does - there's no equivalent
in MSWord, which is what Eric was asking about in the first place.
- Herb
HoneyMonster
They are icons for the toolbar in OpenOffice.org Writer; not characters
for documents. Please try to pay attention. I was responding to Jonathan's
question.
Lorne
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Nick France
>>>>>>>>>>
Clearly the best approach IMO with a minor change. I use Alt-C, Alt-D, Alt-H
and Alt-S since Ctrl followed by a letter is used by word already in many
cases (Ctrl-S for example will save the document).
Note for others you can set the colour as well with this approach so Alt-D
displays a red diamond shape.
Herb
So you were. Mea culpa. Sorry about that.
- Herb
David Stevenson
>How does one enter a bridge symbol in MS Word without cutting and
>pasting from another document?
>Thanks in advance.
Insert > Special Characters.
Then, when you find them, it offers you shortcuts. On all my
computers I make the shortcuts:
CTRL-1 Clubs
CTRL-2 Diamonds
CTRL-3 Hearts
CTRL-4 Spades
Just for your interest, I like having a tick mark available, so I make
that CTRL-5. I also like a long dash so I make that CTRL-minus.
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David Babcock
> > Spade Unicode 2660
> > Club Unicode 2663
> > Heart Unicode 2665
> > Diamond Unicode 2666
>
> > They can be accessed and used directly by entering the Unicode value
> > and following it immediately by Alt-X.
> I tried it. Didn't work for me.
Instead of, for ex, "2660" (without the quotes) and Alt-X, try "U
+2660" (without the quotes) and Alt-X.
BTW, in some (but not all) Unicode fonts, 2661 gets you a hollow heart
symbol and 2662 gets you a hollow diamond symbol - perhaps better than
the filled symbols for black-and-white printing of the red-suit
symbols,
Alternative approaches using the Symbol font can cause problems in
rendering environments that do not have that font - moving the
document to another word processing system is especially likely to
expose this problem. On the other hand, Unicode characters above the
base ASCII set require Unicode-capable environments - which, for ex,
Windows 95 and (I think) 98 were not - and not everyone running those
went to XP.
David
Eric Leong
I was able to get bridge symbols in MS Word as other posters
suggested. Thanks.
However, I have another slight problem.
The symbols print in solid black. I can change the color of the hearts
and diamond symbols to red.
However, with a black and white printer my symbols print in a solid
color.
I would like to print the hearts and diamonds symbols with an outline
where it is white with a black outline.
Does anyone know how it can be done?
Eric Leong
Sid Ismail
Word 2007: Insert-->symbol-->
now choose font Arial Unicode MS
Sid
Herb
CORRECTION: MY BAD ... should have read enter U followed by the
unicode value and then alt-x. For example,
U2660 followed immediately by Alt-X
- Herb
Eddy
1) You could toy with font elements like shadow or contour and see how
it looks.
2) Most of the time 1) looks ugly, then try another font like "DejaVu
Sans" where
the black outline of the red suits are standard.
David Stevenson
>Eric Leong wrote
>>How does one enter a bridge symbol in MS Word without cutting and
>>pasting from another document?
>>Thanks in advance.
>
> Insert > Special Characters.
>
> Then, when you find them, it offers you shortcuts. On all my
>computers I make the shortcuts:
>
>CTRL-1 Clubs
>CTRL-2 Diamonds
>CTRL-3 Hearts
>CTRL-4 Spades
>
> Just for your interest, I like having a tick mark available, so I
>make that CTRL-5. I also like a long dash so I make that CTRL-minus.
Others have mentioned other methods which seem more complicated to me.
But the disadvantage of my method is that the hearts and diamonds are
black. Can someone explain to me a simple way, not of putting in a
heart each time by going through a procedure, but a procedure that sets
up CTRL-3 or ALT-3 as a red heart?
Herb
> Others have mentioned other methods which seem more complicated to me.
> But the disadvantage of my method is that the hearts and diamonds are
> black. Can someone explain to me a simple way, not of putting in a
> heart each time by going through a procedure, but a procedure that sets
> up CTRL-3 or ALT-3 as a red heart?
>
Not sure how to assign a color with a shortcut (probaby can with a
script or macro), but you could use hollow (outline only) glyphs for
the hearts and diamonds by finding a font that has them.
One such font can be found here:
http://www.pagat.com/com/cardsttf.html
Google can find more, but this one is particularly useful.
- Herb
Michael Angelo Ravera
> How does one enter a bridge symbol in MS Word without cutting and
> pasting from another document?
> Thanks in advance.
The best thing to do in Word is to go to the "Insert" menu and find
the symbol that you want. Once you find the symbol, there is an option
to assign the key for it. I have used:
[CTRL][ALT][SHIFT]C for clubs,
[CTRL][ALT][SHIFT]D for diamonds,
[CTRL][ALT][SHIFT]H for hearts,
[CTRL][ALT][SHIFT]S for spades,
[CTRL][ALT][SHIFT]N for no trump,
If you are going to publish, it would be best to have a style sheet
and use <BID>3S</BID> and <CARD>S3</CARD> so that the former could be
presented in bold dark blue and the later in black. If you want to be
perfectly compatible, you should, of course use <BID>3♠</BID>
and <CARD>♠3</CARD>
axm...@hotmail.com
> How does one enter a bridge symbol in MS Word without cutting and
> pasting from another document?
> Thanks in advance.
>
To set up a macro for a red heart:
Click_ ToolsMacroRecordNewMacro
Type a name for the macro <HeartRed>
Click assign macro to <keyboard>
type the key sequence to map to the heart symbol (I use <alt>
[ for heart)
click close
(note all of the following strokes will be executed whenever <alt>
[ is entered)
Click FONTcolor <ColorPalletButton> (toolBarButton)
Click <red>
Click <insert> <symbol>
Click heart symbol in the character map
Click <insert>
Click <close>
Click FONTcolor <ColorPalletButton>
Click <black>
Click_ ToolsMacroStopRecording
Word remembers the <alt>[ command until you make a new macro with the
same name
regards
axman
Eric Leong
>
> - Show quoted text -
I can get the heart and diamond symbol in outline form.
Unfortunately, the heart symbol comes out too "fat".
So if I try to line up the symbols from top to bottom for a bridge
hand the heart symbol is not flush to the left.
Eric Leong
Bob Richardson
>
> - Show quoted text -
If you download and install my Double Dummy Solver program (maybe you
already have) a Font file is automatically installed...called
CCWriter.ttf Open this file when you try to insert a special
character and you can get solid or outlined trump symbols. You can
also get a neat NT symbol...in one character.
Sid Ismail
<bo...@whidbey.com> wrote:
>If you download and install my Double Dummy Solver program (maybe you
>already have) a Font file is automatically installed...called
>CCWriter.ttf
Interested. URL plse?
Sid
HoneyMonster
Henk B Pippel
Lorne
news:H2n+4uCp...@blakjak.demon.co.uk...
Others have mentioned other methods which seem more complicated to me.
But the disadvantage of my method is that the hearts and diamonds are
black. Can someone explain to me a simple way, not of putting in a
heart each time by going through a procedure, but a procedure that sets
up CTRL-3 or ALT-3 as a red heart?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You need to use auto text. The exact method depends on your version of word
(so try F1 to get help on your version) but auto text allows you to format
the text before assigning a shortcut to it.
Bob Richardson
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:37:56 -0800 (PST), Bob Richardson
>
> >If you download and install my Double Dummy Solver program (maybe you
> >already have) a Font file is automatically installed...called
> >CCWriter.ttf
>
> Interested. URL plse?
>
> Sid
David Stevenson
I have tried and failed to do this.
David Stevenson
Suppose I find a font. What can I do to get it into a shortcut?
David Stevenson
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's clever!
Ok, gottit!
Bertel Lund Hansen
>>black. Can someone explain to me a simple way, not of putting in a
>>heart each time by going through a procedure, but a procedure that sets
>>up CTRL-3 or ALT-3 as a red heart?
I have a workaround:
Once you have written one symbol with the proper colour, you can
copy-paste it.
Maybe you could even write for example HRT while writing, and
then afterwards search for HRT and replace with the heart symbol
with colour? I haven't tried this.
--
Bertel, Denmark
http://bridge.lundhansen.dk/
David Stevenson
Axman seems ot have solved it for me, thx.