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Word Macro to display a table showing each character in a font?

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I’m looking for a Word macro that can generate a table, with cells containing each character in the font, along with the same character in Arial and also the character code.

The reason for this is that I have a number of wingding-like fonts, and often, I don’t know the keystroke or character code for a given symbol. A chart like this would be much more useful that something like charmap.exe

Does anything like this exist? Or perhaps a standalone program to do the same thing? I’ve google high and low, and haven’t been able to find anything like it.

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Loads of different programs

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not sure which will suit you best.
Search “font explorer”, “font viewer”, “character map”.
Examples:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/fxplorer.asp
http://www.styopkin.com/details_free_and_easy_fonts_viewer.html
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popchar/

Or you could just lay out a table, type or key in all applicable scan codes, duplicate that all the way down the table, and change the font on each row. I’d have no clue as to how to write a macro for that, myself.

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