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Asked: 2026-05-19T03:16:37+00:00

I experience a strange problem in MS Word 2010 VBA. I added a ribbon

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I experience a strange problem in MS Word 2010 VBA.
I added a ribbon command calling the following code
Selection.InsertSymbol Font:=”Wingdings 3″, CharacterNumber:=-4028, Unicode:=True
After opening Word application for couple of minutes the call to this line
results in empty squares as if the font was not found. After that all works normally and the symbols are written correctly. Is there any workaround?
I found similar question here [on SO][1]

[1]: Inserting symbols into text in PowerPoint 2007 using VBA but I am not sure that I can use the solution provided there in MS Word.
Maybe there is a way to just preload the Windlings font?

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  1. Editorial Team

    CharacterNumber is a Variant type, so it should take string values for most things. Just enclose the number in double-quotes. This one works for me:

    Selection.InsertSymbol Font:="Wingdings 3", CharacterNumber:="-4028", Unicode:=True
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