I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

How about Alt+399 in the Symbol font?

Andrea Jones
http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk
http://www.stratatraining.co.uk
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"Katydid" wrote:

I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

Thanks Andrea, but what I really need is a circle with a slightly larger plus
sign centered directly in the center of that circle. Alt 399 gives me an Ã…
which is not quite what I need. I can't even find what I want anywhere in
the symbols section, but it is a widely used character in manufacturing. I
guess I will have to keep spelling it out. ugh!

"Andrea Jones" wrote:

How about Alt+399 in the Symbol font?

Andrea Jones
http://www.allaboutoffice.co.uk
http://www.stratatraining.co.uk
http://www.allaboutclait.com

"Katydid" wrote:

I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

Katydid wrote:
I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?


How about Alt-177 from the Wingdings font?

Bill

I get it to work great (mine for some reason only works with alt 187 even
though on the wingdings menu it does say symbol 177) if I am in font
windings, but I will be combining in the same cell with arial fonts, for
instance:

•— Ø.0M-AM-BM - but formated, the •— comes out as the right symbol. Does
anything work while you are still in ariel?

"Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from addre" wrote:

Katydid wrote:
I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?


How about Alt-177 from the Wingdings font?

Bill

We use a GD&T font that gives you all the symbols that you are looking for.

"Katydid" wrote:

I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

Jeff - I would love to have a GD&T Fond, do you know where I can get ahold of
the set?

Thanks,
Kate

"Jeff" wrote:

We use a GD&T font that gives you all the symbols that you are looking for.

"Katydid" wrote:

I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

e-mail me @ and I will send them to you!

"Jeff" wrote:

We use a GD&T font that gives you all the symbols that you are looking for.

"Katydid" wrote:

I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

Katydid wrote:
I get it to work great (mine for some reason only works with alt 187 even
though on the wingdings menu it does say symbol 177) if I am in font
windings, but I will be combining in the same cell with arial fonts, for
instance:

•— Ø.0M-AM-BM - but formated, the •— comes out as the right symbol. Does
anything work while you are still in ariel?

"Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from addre" wrote:


Katydid wrote:

I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?


How about Alt-177 from the Wingdings font?

Bill



If you have a string of Arial characters, for example, and want this one
Wingding in the middle you can do it. With my old Excel97 you can just
highlight that one character in Excel's little editing window and change the
font for it from the drop down font list. You won't see the change made in the
editing window, but when you hit enter you'll see it correctly in the cell
you're editing. Or I sometimes will just copy/paste the desired symbol into the
Arial string from a listing of special fonts.

I believe that with newer versions of Excel you can also just directly insert a
symbol from the drop down menus, but I can't say for sure what the process is
since I don't have the newer version.

Good luck...

Bill

Katydid wrote:
Jeff - I would love to have a GD&T Fond, do you know where I can get ahold of
the set?

Thanks,
Kate

"Jeff" wrote:


We use a GD&T font that gives you all the symbols that you are looking for.

"Katydid" wrote:


I use alt-0216 for Ø diameter, and alt-248 for ° degrees, but what I really
need is a geometric dimensioning and tolerancing POSITION symbol. It is a
circle with a plus sign over it. It kind of looks like the crosshairs of a
hunting rifle. Any suggestions?

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Bear in mind that one problem with using non-standard fonts is that the document
may not format properly on someone else's machine unless they have that font
too. Special fonts can be a great solution if you're not communicating the
resulting file with various other people.

Bill