[UniMacTech] Symbols in Word on Mac and PC

[Allan Gadsby]

Response from user-:
Al
I have done it in two ways.  The first was via “insert ->symbol” which was
how I had always done it.  These did a disappearing trick in the PC-Mac
exchanges. When I put them back in on the Mac by this process, they seemed
to be fine and had been writing away merrily when right before my eyes, I
saw word go through automatically and take them all out – quite odd.  Then I
went onto the word help for inserting symbols and it suggested using the
objects palette and select symbols.  This I diligently did, but when I open
on or send to a PC, these disappear too.  I thought Office had gotten over
compatibility problems.
Thanks
Jennelle 

-- 
 Allan Gadsby
 Technical Support Officer.
Central Queensland University
Information Technology Division
Rockhampton, QLD, 4702.
Ph. (61) 07 4930 6888.
Mobile. 0407 789 953
a.gadsby at cqu.edu.au


> From: Adrian Smith <a.smith at centenary.usyd.edu.au>
> Reply-To: University Macintosh Technical Mailing List <unimactech at auc.edu.au>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:36:59 +1100
> To: University Macintosh Technical Mailing List <unimactech at auc.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [UniMacTech] Symbols in Word on Mac and PC
> 
> 
> On 11/03/2009, at 5:27 PM, Allan Gadsby wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi folks
>> We have a user writing grant applications in both Word 2007 on a PC
>> and Word
>> 2007 on a MacBook but some of the symbols are disappearing when
>> switching
>> from on the other. If she uses the Greek ϒ, for example, in Word
>> 2008 then
>> opens in Word 2007, the symbol is replaced with a box, and the same
>> happens
>> the other way, and for some other symbols, too. I have found a few
>> threads
>> on Google, but no real solutions, apart from using LaTex or PDF. The
>> grant
>> has to be submitted as a Word doc, apparently.
>> Has anyone found a way around this?
>> Thanks
>> Al
>> 
>> -- 
>> Allan Gadsby
>> Technical Support Officer.
>> Central Queensland University
> 
> 
> How are the greek characters being inserted?  Which fonts are you using?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adrian Smith
> Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia
> 
> 
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