Now that we have electronic submission of work you need to be able to type all symbols, not leave a space and write them in by hand!

Old English fonts

You can get the extra symbols you need to write Old English in plain Roman form via the Insert… Symbol…More symbols menu option in Word. Just choose the font called normal text and you will find ċ ā þ æ etc. all there if you hunt around. You find the symbol you want and double click it. It then jumps into your text wherever you came from.

Phonetic fonts

You can get the extra symbols you need to write IPA symbols via the Insert… Symbol…More symbols menu option in Word. Just choose the font called normal text and you will find ə ʃ ʊ æ etc. all there if you hunt around. You find the symbol you want and double click it. It then jumps into your text wherever you came from.

There are also some specialist IPA fonts. While word processing in Word you access them via the Insert… Symbol… More symbols… and under Font choose one of the phonetic fonts. Their names begin with SIL (because they were developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in USA). E.g. SILDoulosIPA is the one that matches the Times New Roman font, which many people type in as default.

To obtain the fonts for your own computer, if you don’t have them, you can download the files from a university computer to your own computer as follows. Access Start…Computer….C: in a lab and search for the fonts folder. In that look for the specific one you want, in files ending in .ttf which is what font files end with. Pick an SIL font file of your choice, right click copy and paste onto a memory stick. Take it home and on your own computer search in a similar way to find the Fonts folder where all the .ttf files are stored. Then paste/save this new one into the same folder with all the others. When you use Word on your own computer these fonts automatically become available in Word.