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Getting the Symbols You Want To enter graphical symbols into your documents in Vista, it’s no longer necessary to switch to Symbol, an old-style font that has only about 220 distinct cha

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588 Appendix A: Vista Symbols

Vista includes more fonts and more symbols that you can insert into documents thanever before In addition, the Arial Unicode MS font, which is preinstalled withMicrosoft Office on many PCs, offers a huge assortment of symbols and character setsfrom around the world

Getting the Symbols You Want

To enter graphical symbols into your documents in Vista, it’s no longer necessary to switch

to Symbol, an old-style font that has only about 220 distinct characters The Windows corefonts — including Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New — now support 1,000 to2,000 characters This acccomodates every European language as well as providing manypictorial symbols

If you can’t find the symbol you want in a core font, Vista provides the Wingdings,Webdings, and Lucida Sans Unicode fonts

Wingdings and Webdings have been included with the operating system since

Windows 3.1 and Windows 98, respectively These two fonts, like Symbol, alsosupport only about 220 designs, but several of them are offbeat images that may

be exactly what you’re looking for

Lucida Sans Unicodeis a wide-ranging collection of characters and symbols thathas been included in the OS since Windows 95 With the introduction of

Windows 2000, Lucida Sans Unicode grew to encompass some 1,776 characters.That number has risen only slightly to date, so almost anyone who’s installed aversion of Windows since 2000 will have the same Lucida characters that Vistausers do

For the ultimate in language and symbology support, Microsoft provides a giant fontcalled Arial Unicode MS This font, which is currently over 22MB in size, includes morethan 50,000 shapes representing about 39,000 different characters At this writing, ArialUnicode MS is not included with Vista but is loaded by default when you install MicrosoftOffice 2000 or higher Because many PCs today come with Office preinstalled, the char-acters present in Arial Unicode MS are available to a large number of Windows users.Figure A-1 shows a tiny sampling of the symbols you can insert into your documentsusing the Vista and Office fonts described previously

When It’s Safe to Use Your Fonts

A great deal of information about which fonts are present in different versions of Windows —and how best to use them — is presented earlier in this book in Chapter 7 In this appendix,we’ll just quickly review a few rules of thumb And we’ll plunge into a few figures that showyou which symbols are available to you as a Vista user

You can safely use any font in Vista if you observe the following guidelines:

1 Print-only documents.If you plan to distribute only hard copies of your ments, and you don’t expect anyone other than yourself to be editing the files,you can use any font and any character you wish If you can see the character onyour screen, and it prints correctly on your printer, that’s all that matters

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2 Adobe PDF files.If you have Adobe Acrobat or an alternative program that ates PDF (Portable Document Format) files, you can also use any font or characteryou wish The PDF technology automatically saves the outlines of any fonts used

cre-in a document This makes the document display and prcre-int the same way on thecomputers of other people you distribute the file to (Widely used “core” fonts,such as Arial, are exceptions that are sometimes not included in PDF files But, atyour option, you can require the inclusion of even these fonts In Acrobat, clickAdvanced➪Acrobat Distiller➪Settings➪Edit Adobe PDF Settings➪Fonts➪EmbedAll Fonts.)

3 Sharing doc files.If you want other people to be able to edit a document thatyou’ve created using noncore fonts, you have two choices You can make surethat your associates are all using the same version of Windows that you are Thismakes it very likely that they’ll also have the same fonts and characters on theirPCs that you do Or you can save all the fonts you use within the document itself

so others are guaranteed to have all the same characters you do

To do this in Microsoft Word, click Tools➪Options➪Save➪Embed TrueTypeFonts Embedding a font makes your file take up more space on disk, but it’susually worth it to prevent editing problems (To reduce the disk-space require-ments, the Embed TrueType Fonts check box allows you to save only those char-acters you actually use in a document This reduced character set, however,makes it impossible for other people to edit the document and include charactersyou didn’t use, if they don’t have the same fonts installed.)

4 Posting documents on the Web.If you use the correct methods, you can safelyinclude special characters in articles that you post on the Web The trick is to

specify characters above decimal 127 using an HTML feature called numbered

entities For example, don’t insert an em dash ( — ) into your writing by entering

character number 150 This only displays properly in Windows, not in Macs orLinux Instead, make sure your HTML code uses the Unicode decimal value ofthe em dash, which is 8212, in an encoded entity like this:

—

All modern Web browsers, at least since version 4.0 of the Internet Explorer andNetscape browsers and version 1.0 of Firefox, will convert a numbered entity into

the desired character as long as any font present on the visitor’s machine supports

that character This means that you don’t have to know every font that your tors may have installed As long as you use a character that’s present in a corefont or in Lucida Sans Unicode, 99 percent of Web surfers will be able to see it.The preceding comments about embedding fonts into PDF and DOC files assume that theparticular fonts you’re using don’t prohibit embedding Fortunately, most of the fonts pro-vided by Vista do allow embedding If you’ve purchased fonts from other sources, how-ever, check that they’re “embeddable” or, even better, “editable.” If not, don’t assumethese fonts can be saved within your PDF and DOC files

visi-It’s easy to check whether a given font is “editable” (it allows whoever opens the file toenter new characters from the embedded font) or merely “embeddable” (it allows who-ever opens the file to see all same characters in whichever font you originally used) To

do this, open the Fonts control panel, right-click a font name, click Properties, and selectthe Details tab The Font Embeddability line will show you the font’s status

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Figure A-1: Common symbols To insert symbols such as these into your documents, select

the recommended font in your application, and then use the Alt+number method described inthis appendix to enter the decimal value of each character

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Figure A-1 (continued)

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Entering Special Characters

Many applications have their own unique methods that allow you to enter special ters into documents Microsoft Word, for example, supports an Insert➪Symbol command.This enables you to select any character you wish from within a list of all installed fonts.The following method, however, works the same way in almost all Windows applications,regardless of who developed them It involves holding down the Alt key while you enter

charac-a decimcharac-al number on your numeric keypcharac-ad

Entering Characters Using Alt+number

1. In your application, select a font that contains the character you wish to insert

2. Make sure NumLock is on (the NumLock light is lighted)

3. Hold down your Alt key

4. Type the decimal number of the character on your numeric keypad (This evenworks on laptops with no numeric keypad, as long as they have a NumLock keyand numerals that are printed on alphabetical characters on the keyboard.)

5. Release the Alt key The desired character should instantly appear

For example, to enter an em dash into text, hold down Alt and type 8212 on your numerickeypad (This is usually written “Alt+8212.”) Vista’s core fonts and most of the other fontswill display a dash at your cursor location as soon as you release the Alt key

The Leading Zero Is No Longer Needed

Windows users have long used the Alt+number method to enter special characters.Alt+0169, for example, accesses a copyright symbol in most fonts Vista eliminates theneed to enter a leading zero in front of the rest of the number Any decimal numbermay now be entered by holding down Alt, typing the number on the numeric keypad,and releasing Alt Alt+169, for example, is all that’s needed to get a copyright symbol

In previous versions of Windows, using the Alt+number method to enter a numberbetween 128 and 255 without the leading zero resulted in the insertion of a charac-ter from the old DOS upper-ANSI character set — but no longer

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What if you forget to switch to the appropriate font before entering the character number —

or it turns out that the font you selected doesn’t in fact support that character? Most cations allow you to select a different font for specified text even after you’ve entered it

appli-The Alt+number method, unfortunately, is somewhat dependent on the specific input

lan-guage that’s in effect when you’re typing For example, Alt+number works in the English

(United States) input language but not in every input language that can be used byWindows

Check your input language To find out which input language Vista is using, open theRegional and Language Options control panel In the Keyboards and Languages tab,click the Change Keyboards button Your default input language should be shown

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Entering Characters Using CharMap

If the Alt+number method doesn’t work for you, a technique that always works is to useCharMap.exe This little accessory allows you to scroll through the entire character set ofany installed font You can then pick characters using the Select button, copy them to theClipboard using the Copy button, and finally paste them into your word-processing appli-cation Your pasted characters should retain their font information, just as they appeared

in CharMap

To launch CharMap, click Start➪All Programs➪Accessories➪System Tools➪Character

Map Or enter charmap.exe in the search bar.

Figure A-2 shows an example of using ChapMap to select the copyright symbol (Alt+169)

Figure A-2:Selecting characters using CharMap Clicking a character shows an enlargedversion of it Clicking the Select button enters a character into the “Characters to copy” area.Clicking the Copy button copies the characters in this area to the Clipboard, after which youcan paste the characters into documents

Apps That Help You Pick Your Fonts

Some Vista applications will actually help you find a character you enter, if that acter isn’t present in your currently selected font Try this in WordPad, for instance:Change the current font to Lucida Sans Unicode Enter Alt+9398 to insert a circledletter “A.” Without warning, WordPad switches the current font to SimSun and inserts

char-a circled “A,” becchar-ause Lucidchar-a doesn’t contchar-ain thchar-at symbol but SimSun does You’llneed to manually switch back to your base font if you don’t want to use SimSun (afont widely used in China) for the rest of your document

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Choosing the Right Font for the Job

When entering symbols, selecting a font that’s “low on the food chain” will reduce anypotential problems if you want to allow others to open and edit your document

Look for the characters you want in the following kinds of fonts, from the most prevelent

to the least:

1 Use “core” fonts first.If you can find a desired symbol in Arial, Times NewRoman, or Courier New, select one of these fonts Almost all users of Windows,Macs, and Linux have versions of these fonts installed

2 Use Lucida Sans Unicode when needed.This font has been present by default inWindows since version 98 and most Windows users will therefore have it

installed If Mac or Linux users will be receiving your document, however, theymay not have Lucida available In that case, distribute your document only withLucida embedded when you save the file

3 Use Wingdings or Webdings sparingly.Only Windows users typically havethese fonts installed So use them only if necessary, and always embed themwhen you do Figures A-3 and A-4 show the symbols available in Wingdings andWebdings, respectively If possible, use instead the characters in the Dingbatsrange of Unicode: hex 2700 to 27BF

4 Use Arial Unicode MS when necessary.Even many Windows users don’t havethis font handy, because it’s currently installed only by Microsoft Office 2000 andhigher Even so, others can see and edit your document — including even themost offbeat Unicode characters — if, when you save the file, you embed thecharacters that you used Be aware that Arial Unicode MS is over 22MB by itself,

so embedding the entire font can enormously increase the size of your files

The Benefits of Unicode

Unicode is an international standard, first published in 1991, that now defines more than100,000 different characters, ideograms, and symbols from almost every language group

in the world The decimal and hexadecimal values of the characters shown in this dix are the same as the values specified in Unicode

appen-The standardization of these language groups’ symbols — known as glyphs — is a hugeboon for communication Microsoft is a strong supporter of Unicode Files saved inWindows are now stored using an encoding of Unicode called UTF-8 This encodingensures that the characters in a disk file will remain stable regardless of the various inputlanguages that may be selected on a computer at any given time

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We haven’t attempted to include every known Unicode character here Entire books thatdocument the standard — including tens of thousands of Chinese, Japanese, and Koreanideograms — are available from the Unicode Consortium at www.unicode.org.

In this book, Chapter 7 includes a chart of some of the Unicode characters available inArial and Times New Roman In this appendix, by contrast, Figure A-5 is a chart showinguseful symbols that are found in Lucida Sans Unicode and Arial Unicode MS We show acolumn for each character in both of those fonts because the appearance sometimes dif-fers notably between the two Also, some symbols appear only in one font and not theother This is indicated by a blank space in one font’s column

The position of a character in the Unicode scheme is often represented using a number, asfollows: U+20AC, for instance, for a euro sign (decimal 8364) We simply show in ourcharts the decimal and hex values without tacking on the “U+” indicator Also, theUnicode Consortium usually specifies the names of defined characters in all caps For leg-ibility’s sake, we’ve written out the character names for you in upper- and lowercase,although the all-cap version is technically more correct

In no way do we believe that we’ve shown here every character that might possibly beuseful to you Also, please note that the charts we’ve designed for this book were createdusing a beta version of Windows Vista Characters that weren’t included in the Vista fontsthen may have become a part of those fonts by the time you read this or shortly thereafter

As always, be sure to test any characters and fonts you wish to include in a documentbefore relying on those characters to be there

Have fun using these characters! The only limit is your imagination

Make your own snowman Does a collection of all the glyphs of all the world’s languagegroups really need a symbol of a snowman? Who knows, but there he is, top hat andall, at position U+2603 (see Figure A-5) That’s funny, but some sillier things have beenfended off by the Unicode Consortium The group rejected a request to reserve charac-ter positions for Klingon, a made-up language spoken only by Star Trek devotees

For a complete set of Vista glyphs and symbols, download Strange Characters in Vista, a

PDF e-book, from http://WindowsSecrets.com/vista

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Figure A-3: The Wingdings character set The original Wingdings font first appeared way

back in Windows 3.1 Like its 1998 sibling, named Webdings, Wingdings contains approximately

220 symbols, most of which require a fairly large size to be legible

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Figure A-4: The Webdings character set The Webdings font has been included in every version

of Windows since Windows 98

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Figure A-5: Symbols in Lucida Sans Unicode and Arial Unicode MS These fonts support

approximately 1,800 and 39,000 characters, respectively We show on these pages a subset ofthe symbols in these fonts that may be most useful to you

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Symbols and Numerics

| (pipe character), 570

32-bit and 64-bit version differences, 33

128 through 159 control codes, 173–174

A

accented characters, 172–173, 175–177

accounts

administrator, 234–235e-mail, 497

standard user, 235User Account Controlconfiguration, 238–239consent options, 236credentials, 235–237disabling, 238discussed, 224Local Security Settings management console, 239security options, 218, 224, 240

Active Desktop See Windows Sidebar

ActiveX Opt-In feature, 225–226

activity reporting, Parental Controls, 242–243

Add command, 573–574

Add To Favorites button (IE 7), 462

Additional Clocks tab (Date and Time

Properties dialog box), 118

Add/Remove program replacement, Programs

Explorer feature, 6

address bar

IE 7, 468new features, 120address book option, Mail feature, 507–508

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR),

Aero interfacethumbnail views, 3user experiencesconfiguration, 106dynamic window animations, 104Flip 3D feature availability,103–104

heightened sense of depth advantage, 102–103memory requirements, 105product edition availability, 98technical requirements, 105thumbnail view availability, 104visual style arrangement, 106WDDM driver requirements, 105window color scheme/

transparency choices, 106viewing, 4

window chrome translucency, 3album selection, WMP 11, 261alerts, Security Center, 218All Programs command (Start menu), 7, 60,108–109, 148

Always Available Offline dialog box, 427Andale Mono fonts, 190

animations, dynamic window, 104ANSI (American National Standards Institute)characters

discussed, 168entering characters from, 169–170, 172list of, 169–170

antenna, Media Center configuration, 366antivirus protection, 217

Anytime upgrades, 37Apostrophic Laboratories web site, 207

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Appearance Settings dialog box, 97–98, 414

applications

removing, 6thumbnail views, 3Unicode character support, 179, 184appointments, Calendar application

configuration, 543creating, 539location details, 540name details, 540participants, 542reminders, 541repeating, 540start/end times, 540web address associated with, 540Arabic fonts, 204

Arial Black fonts, 188, 199

Arial fonts, 187

Arial Unicode MS character, 169

artist selections, WMP 11, 259

Ascender Font Store web site, 210

ASLR (Address Space Layout

Randomization), 231

aspect ratio

DVD Maker, 351

HD video settings, 341–342regular video settings, 341as-you-type-search, 140

attachments, e-mail, 501

attacks, cross-site scripting, 12

audio CD creation, Media Center, 391–392

audio formats

Movie Maker supported, 328WMP 11, 20

Audio Video Interleave (AVI) format, 340

authors, searches by, 142

auto adjustment, Photo Gallery photos, 307

AutoComplete feature, IE 7, 460

automatic driver installation, clean install

method, 59

automatic learning, Tablet PCs, 439

automatic spell checking, Mail feature, 503

automatic updates

clean install method, 54–55

as security feature, 217autostart, Windows Sidebar, 151

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format, 340

B

Back button

IE 7, 468WMP 11, 255backups

complete PC, 554, 560–561data, 554, 556–558

file recovery, 555full, 557

managing, 558–559partial, 557

restoration, 559–560snapshots, 554system image, 554Balance power plan, mobile power management, 417

Baltic code page, glyph, 168basic restoration, 559Basic user experienceadvantages/disadvantages, 100features, 100

product edition availability, 98battery meters, mobile power management,415

BIOS screen, clean install method, 47bit rate

HD video settings, 341–342regular video settings, 341BitLocker feature

accessing, 229advantages of, 15availability, 15Manage Keys link, 230black shadow appearance, Windows Sidebar,148–149

Blocked Senders list, Mail feature, 505blue Sidebar icon (Windows Sidebar), 148blue-green color-coded folders, 127breadcrumb bar

discussed, 120WMP 11, 256break points, Movie Maker, 332built-in display, Media Center configuration,367

burningburn speed, DVD Maker, 351

616 A–B

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in Media Center, 391–394

in WMP 11, 271–272DVDs, 94, 391–393Business version

costs, 35discussed, 32Enterprise comparisons, 40–41features available in, 42–43peer-to-peer networking limitations, 36RAM limitations, 36

upgrades, 36buttons

Add to Favorites (IE 7), 462Advanced (Indexing and Search Optiontool), 142

Advanced Search, 141Back

IE 7, 468WMP 11, 255Category (WMP 11), 256Edit, accessing on IE 7, 460, 468Feeds (IE 7), 471

Forward

IE 7, 468WMP 11, 255Forward (WMP 11), 255

Go (IE 7), 468History (IE 7), 468, 471Home (IE 7), 468Layout Options, 258Library toolbar, 255Mute, 262

New Tab (IE 7 tabbed browsing), 472Next (WMP 11), 262

Organize (command bar), 121Play/Pause (WMP 11), 262Previous (WMP 11), 262Print (IE 7), 468

Refresh (IE 7), 468Repeat (WMP 11), 262Rip toolbar, 255Search (IE 7), 468Shuffle (WMP 11), 262Split (Movie Maker), 333Stop

IE 7, 468WMP 11, 262

View Options, 259–260Views (command bar), 121

C

cablecosts, 16Media Center configuration, 366USB Easy Transfer, 16

CableCard technology, 363Calendar applicationappointmentsconfiguration, 543creating, 539location details, 540name details, 540participants, 542reminders, 541repeating, 540start/end times, 540web address associated with, 540configuration, 538–539

data, importing/exporting, 545–546date section, 537

Day view, 535–536display color, 533groups, 534hiding calendars, 538Month view, 537multiple calendar additions, 533name selection, 533

new calendar creation, 534print options, 550–551publishing, 548–549related terms, 532–533searches, 549

shared calendars, 548–549standards-based calendars, 530subscriptions, 546

synchronized calendars, 549tasks

configuration, 545creating, 543naming, 544note section, 544reminders, 544sorting, 545web address associated with, 544

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