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How to insert musical symbols in MS Word 2010? Plus, where to find a table of additional musical symbols.

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2013-04-18T15:45:23+00:00

I need some step-by-step instructions for inserting some Musical Symbols in MS Word 2010...such as the flat-sign, sharp-sign, fermata, D.S. sign, and the Coda sign? (Also, where to find a table of codes for inserting additional Musical Symbols.) Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-19T05:10:47+00:00

    You should be able to do this without installing new fonts. Segoe UI Symbol is part of Windows and contains a wealth of musical symbols starting at Unicode 1D100. To insert a symbol and browse what's available from any Office application click Insert Symbol: under the Insert tab, then the Symbols group, click Symbol / More Symbols.

    In the Symbols dialog that opens, for "Font", select "Segoe UI Symbol". You can scroll down to just past the middle, or you can directly type the Character Code at the bottom (above the Insert button, and be sure "Unicode (hex)" is selected in "from"): 1d100. You don't need to press tab or enter. It will automatically take you to the first musical symbol, after which you can see all of them.

    Select your symbol then click the Insert button. After you've inserted the symbols you plan to use repeatedly, you don't have to go through all of this. When you click the Symbol button in the ribbon, your musical symbols will appear automatically because they were most recently used.

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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-04-18T16:42:28+00:00

    If you look at the "Miscellaneous Dingbats" character subset of any good-sized Unicode font, you'll find a few symbols. For example, Times New Roman and Arial have the sharp at U266F along with some generic musical notes. Arial Unicode MS adds some more notes, the flat, and the natural sign, and Lucida Sans Unicode also has the flat, natural, and sharp.

    To get other symbols, you'll probably need to get a dedicated music font. My favorite free font site is Dafont; see music-themed fonts at http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=720.

    Another good candidate at http://fonts.simplythebest.net/fonts/musical_symbols.html. If you google for "musical symbols font, you'll also turn up http://hindson.com.au/info/free/free-fonts-available-for-download/, http://www.fontspace.com/category/dingbats,music,symbols, and many others.

    Inthis thread, Rohn007 offers these sources for musical symbols symbols and fonts:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols

    http://websitetips.com/fonts/music/ - music fonts

    http://linkwaregraphics.com/music/symbols/ - printable music symbols

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-30T22:53:06+00:00

    This link has a list of Unicode Musical Symbols:

    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-07-29T14:47:27+00:00

    I need some step-by-step instructions for inserting some Musical Symbols in MS Word 2010...such as the flat-sign, sharp-sign, fermata, D.S. sign, and the Coda sign? (Also, where to find a table of codes for inserting additional Musical Symbols.) Thanks!

    With this software you can insert almost any musical symbols, parts of compositions and educational examples. Maestro Notation for MS Word . I hope this help.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-04-18T23:34:24+00:00

    Type the number (such as 266F) and immediately press Alt+X. But you can certainly find the symbol in the Symbol dialog (Insert | Symbols | Symbol | More Symbols ...).

    Once you've inserted a symbol, it will be added to the palette that appears when you click on Symbol, but it's usually more efficient to add Symbol to the QAT; this provides access to the Symbol dialog if you want a new symbol, and the recently used ones are in a row on the bottom. The dialog is resizable, and the larger you make it, the more symbols the MRU list displays.

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