Wingdings Not Working In Word For Mac
-->- Wingdings is not available on all computers, and so the intended characters may not appear on computers running non-Microsoft operating systems such as Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10, Linux or Android. The same problems are found with the Webdings, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 fonts – they should not be used in Web pages.
- When you need an icon or symbol, like a lightning bolt or checkmark, it’s sometimes hard to navigate the different Wingdings and Webdings fonts. So I created this handy printable cheat sheet for an at-a-glance view of all available symbols.
Overview
Word makes listening possible by using the text-to-speech (TTS) ability of your device to play back written text as spoken words. There are multiple tools for listening to your Word documents: Read Aloud reads all or part of your document. You can use Read Aloud on its own or within Immersive Reader for Word in Windows, MacOS, and iOS.
The Wingdings fonts were designed by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow in 1990 and 1991. The fonts were originally named Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars to complement the Lucida text font family by the same designers. Renamed, reorganized, and released in 1992 as Microsoft Wingdings(TM), the three fonts provide a harmoniously designed set of icons representing the common components of personal computer systems and the elements of graphical user interfaces. There are icons for PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackball, hard drive, diskette, tape cassette, printer, fax, etc., as well as icons for file folders, documents, mail, mailboxes, windows, clipboard, and wastebasket. In addition, Wingdings includes icons with both traditional and computer significance, such as writing tools and hands, reading glasses, clipping scissors, bell, bomb, check boxes, as well as more traditional images such as weather signs, religious symbols, astrological signs, encircled numerals, a selection of ampersands and interrobangs, plus elegant flowers and flourishes. Pointing and indicating are frequent functions in graphical interfaces, so in adition to a wide selection of pointing hands, the Wingdings fonts also offer arrows in careful gradations of weight and different directions and styles. For variety and impact as bullets, asterisks, and ornaments, Windings also offers a varied set of geometric circles, squares, polygons, targets, and stars.
| File name | Wingding.ttf Wingdng2.ttf Wingdng3.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Wingdings Wingdings 2 Wingdings 3 |
| Designers | N/A |
| Copyright | © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
| Font vendor | Microsoft Corp. |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Zsym' slng:'Zsym' |
| Code pages | Symbol Symbol Character Set |
| Fixed pitch | False |
Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.00 |
| Windows XP SP2 | 2.55 |
| Windows XP | 2.55 |
| Windows 2000 | 2.55 |
| Windows 98 Second Edition | 2.55 |
| Windows 98 | 2.50 |
| Windows 95 | 2.00 |
| Windows 3.1 | 1.00 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.00 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 2.55 |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
Style & weight examples
Wingdings
Wingdings 2
Wingdings 3
I had a problem today in that I was writing about the Mac but using a PC. I needed to type the character for the Command key on the Mac keyboard which, as you might know, is this cute twirly shape. But since I was working on a PC I didn’t have fonts which contained the character. After an hour or so of research, I found the character.
As luck would have it, it was where I should have looked to begin with, in my Wingdings font. To get it, in any document or any application that supports fonts, click to use the Wingdings font and type the lowercase z – voila – the Command key character.
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Type In Wingdings
So far, so good. But what about the other keys, like the Apple key and the Alt key on older keyboards? In the interests of helping you get everything you need in one post, if not in one font, here’s how to get hold of the characters for the Apple key and the Alt key:
Wingdings Not Working In Word For Macs
Turns out the Alt key symbol isn’t as easy to find as it might be. Probably the quickest way to locate it is to download the free font Virtue from the ScooterGraphics site.
Once installed the font contains a range of characters including the Mac Alt key symbol and the Apple icon. To get the Alt key select the Virtue font and type Alt + 0221 on the keyboard. The Apple symbol is a little more difficult as it is a hex value so, switch to Virtue font, type F000 into a Word document and immediately (don’t press space) press Alt + X. This little bit of keyboard magic creates the little Apple logo for you. If you need it elsewhere, make it in Word and copy and paste it to the application you need to use it in.
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