iMav
The Devil's Advocate
For all those Wall·E lovers, who wonder as to how to get the ‘center dot’ · and many other special characters like Copyright © or Registered ® or ™ Trademark, Windows has had this little application tucked away in it’s folder hierarchy that allows you do so, pretty neatly and efficiently. In Windows 7 it has been brought out from the closet. Screen-shot:
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To use this nifty application all you have to do is navigate to:
All Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools –> Character Map
That’s not all. Let’s say you’re making a document and want to insert your own character? Windows has had this facility too, but it has not been used and talked about a lot simply because of it’s lack of use.
Presenting Private Character Editor:
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Buried in the System32 folder this little application allows you to make your own ‘characters’ that you can access from the Character Map and insert into documents. Creating a character is pretty simple, you can import an image directly into the editor by using a copy-paste trick. To create your own character:
~Enjoy
*img255.imageshack.us/img255/8776/captureem6.png
To use this nifty application all you have to do is navigate to:
All Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools –> Character Map
That’s not all. Let’s say you’re making a document and want to insert your own character? Windows has had this facility too, but it has not been used and talked about a lot simply because of it’s lack of use.
Presenting Private Character Editor:
*img253.imageshack.us/img253/5310/privatecharacteryv2.png
Buried in the System32 folder this little application allows you to make your own ‘characters’ that you can access from the Character Map and insert into documents. Creating a character is pretty simple, you can import an image directly into the editor by using a copy-paste trick. To create your own character:
- Start –> Run –> C:\WINDOWS\system32\eudcedit.exe
- Choose any box
- Draw or paste your own character
- Edit –> Save Character
- File –> Font Links –> Link With All Fonts
- Start Character Map
- From the fonts drop-down, choose All Fonts (Private Characters)
~Enjoy
