If you need to insert musical symbols into communications or documentation of your business produces with Microsoft Word, the "Insert Symbol" command can help. While this command is more commonly used to add accented letters, currency symbols or special characters like trademark and copyright symbols to documents, certain fonts contain an extended character set that includes music notes and marks seen on sheet music. These fonts install with your Windows operating system and with Microsoft Word.
Open the Microsoft Word document where you want to add musical symbols to the text.
Click the "Symbol" button on the Insert tab and then select "More Symbols" from the bottom of the menu.
Select "Arial Unicode MS" or "MS UI Gothic" from the Font category menu.
Select "Miscellaneous" from the Subset category menu to quickly jump to the music symbol section of the list.
Click the music symbol you want to add to your document and click the "Insert" button. The dialog box remains open to allow you to insert multiple symbols at one time.
Click the "Close" button on the dialog box to exit the insert symbol command when you are done.
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