We wish to detect if a selected character in a Word document is a Symbol. If you use the insert symbol menu to put in, say, a greek mu then select the character, the VBA code

asc(selection.range.text) returns the value 40

and the VBA code

selection.range.font.name returns "Times new Roman" if the surrounding text uses TImes New Roman

Asc 40 in TImes new Roman is the character (

Therefore we are unable to detect programmatically that one of the characters is a greek mu but one of the characters is a (

Any suggestions?

Hi

Can you try typing Alt + 0181 and check if the symbol is the same

Cheers
Shasur

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