Identifying character code (word 97)

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In Word (or Windows generally) how do you identify the four digit code that is associated with a character? In other words, you have a document open, and a particular character is there. How do you know what the character code is, in case you want to use it in the future?
J. Till

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I don’t know of a simple way to determine this without using code but the macro is not difficult.

With Dialogs(wdDialogInsertSymbol)
  MsgBox "Font: " & .Font & vbCr & "Char number: " & .CharNum
End With

This page on the Microsoft MVPs site gives further information http://word.mvps.org/FAQS/MacrosVBA/FindReplaceSymbols.htm%5B/url%5D

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Thank you, Andrew, for this information. I’ll take a look at the macro. To tell the truth, I’m surprised that Word can not do this; as it seems like exactly what a big league word processor should be able to do. Okay…
J. Till

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In more recent versions of Word (2002 and later), you can select a character, then select Insert | Symbol…. The code will be displayed at the bottom of the dialog. But in word 97, the dialog doesn’t display the code.

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You can also use the Character Map accessory (Start > (All) Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map). If you can find the character you need here, the code will be displayed.

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