I need to use the ictus symbol and can't find it in Word 2010, even after searching. I need this to denote syllable stress. Does it exist and if so, where is it/what's the keyboard shortcut? If it doesn't, is there another way to show a stressed syllable in a word?



Thank you.

All of the stress symbols are available in Word; it's just a matter of choosing a font that supports them and knowing which characters they are. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems...ode_characters
You'll find these symbols in the Cardo and Segoe UI Symbol font sets. To use these symbols, simply type the numbers after the '+', then Alt-x.

For accenting particular characters, you can also look in the 'latin-1' extended and supplement sub-sets, as well as in the spacing modifier and combining diacritical sub-sets (again, these are font-dependent, and can be found in standard fonts like Times & Arial)

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Paul Edstein
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