I’m teaching some friends bridge and give them handouts after each lesson. (I’m using Microsoft WORD.)
I’d like to add some ‘class’ by using the standard suit symbols.
Where can I get symbols for spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs?
Is there a font that does this?
Can I copy them from somewhere?
Thanks for your help!
The Character Map shows them as being unicodes 2660, 2663, 2665 and 2666.
It’s in the start menu:
start -> (all programs ->) accesories -> system tools -> character map
I think you only need the “all programs” depending on your start menu’s settings. You can go waaaaay back down until you see those symbols. Click on a symbol to see its number. If you’re not at 2660 yet, go further down; if you’re higher and haven’t seen the ones you want, go back up.
Once you find them, click on one, click select, click the next one, select… when you have all four, click copy. Now you can paste them onto your document, and later use copypaste from where you first pasted them. If, like me, you have problems clicking on the second one because of the way the map highlights things by popping them up, just click on something else in between.
Depending on your version of windows, you should also be able to set shortcuts for them.
I think one of the Wingdings has them more easily, but I find this copypaste approach, as long as it is to explain, simpler than switching back and forth between two fonts.
Alt codes are the easiest. (In Windows…if you’re using mac, I’m not sure how to do it.)
Basically, hold the alt key, while typing the number associated with the symbol you want, and viola.
There’s a list here.
If, for some reason, that doesn’t work, you can copy/paste from character map (in the Start menu, under accessories->system tools).
My keyboard doesn’t like alt codes 
Since they have been used you can just copy and paste them in from this thread to your document.
Fantastic!
Two excellent options … and within 12-14 * minutes. 
Thank you! 
*I could open a weak no-trump in that range… 
http://conexion.deviantart.com/art/Hoyle-Playing-Cards-Font-9671680
The other person may need to install the fonts also, but normally word is set to include used fonts in the document.
In word you can also use “insert symbol”.
It wasn’t me who needed to use them, I’m the one who pasted them into the thread.
I like my hearts and diamonds red.
Just a mention that alt codes requires the use of the number pad while holding alt and not the number keys on the top row. For instance, alt-1234 on the numpad gets me this: ╥ (and I have no idea what that is) while alt-1234 on the keyboard yields nothing.
Mac tends to have a lot of symbols built in that are easily accessed across the system using the option key, including ones that would require an alt-code in Windows.
Oops…yes, I should have mentioned this part. My bad.
It’s exactly what it looks like: A single horizontal line with a double vertical line branching out below it. There are a lot of characters like that, for use in screen graphics (drawing outlines of boxes and tables and the like).
How does one go the other direction? For example if one has , how does one find the unicode number associated with it?