RE: Character map?

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

> I created a document in Word 97 (last week) that included a lot of 
> "micrograms" and "microliter" references.  Being the dutiful 
> technical writer, I used the Greek letter "mu" as an abbreviation
> for "micro".

That'll teach YOU to get fancy. Someone once asked me why I only use boring
old Times Roman and Arial and no special characters (except MAYBE for
registered, trademark and copyright R, T, and C) in my docs

I have enough trouble with documenting moving targets than to have my own
content bite me in the butt at the worst possible time.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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Dayton: 732-438-3372
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream
of things that never were, and ask why not?"
-----Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

> While we are on the subject, let me complain about Word 2002 
> to someone who 
> cares... :)
> 
> I created a document in Word 97 (last week) that included a lot of 
> "micrograms" and "microliter" references.  Being the dutiful 
> technical 
> writer, I used the Greek letter "mu" as an abbreviation for "micro".
> 
> We upgraded to Windows XP and Office 2002 over the last 
> weekend.  When I 
> sent out the document for review, the reviewers discovered 
> that all of the 
> mu's had been replaced by T's.  Ugh!
> 
> Moral of the story:  be careful with special characters.
> 

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