If it prints successfully that tells us that the problem is in your existing document. See Troubleshoot damaged documents in Word for Mac. If it doesn't print successfully try changing the font of your text by selecting your sample text, choosing the Font drop down on the ribbon, and selecting a different font.
- When you try to open a Microsoft Word for Mac document, Word for Mac stops responding. Additionally, you may have to use the Force Quit command to exit the program.
- The Wingdings characters can be accessed in a Unicode-compliant manner, via the 'Private Use Area' (codepoints U+E000 to U+F7FF).These character codes are reserved for any font-specific symbols not part of the regular Unicode character set, and indeed Wingdingds maps all of its symbols to the subrange U+F021 to U+F0FF. For instance, the triangular flag, which is mapped to P = 0x50 in legacy.
- Go to Home tab, in the Font group, change the font to Wingdings (or other font set). Press and hold the ALT key and type the character code on the numeric keypad. Change the font back to your previous font after inserting the symbol.
Overview
The Wingdings fonts were designed by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow in 1990 and 1991. The fonts were originally named Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars to complement the Lucida text font family by the same designers. Renamed, reorganized, and released in 1992 as Microsoft Wingdings(TM), the three fonts provide a harmoniously designed set of icons representing the common components of personal computer systems and the elements of graphical user interfaces. There are icons for PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackball, hard drive, diskette, tape cassette, printer, fax, etc., as well as icons for file folders, documents, mail, mailboxes, windows, clipboard, and wastebasket. In addition, Wingdings includes icons with both traditional and computer significance, such as writing tools and hands, reading glasses, clipping scissors, bell, bomb, check boxes, as well as more traditional images such as weather signs, religious symbols, astrological signs, encircled numerals, a selection of ampersands and interrobangs, plus elegant flowers and flourishes. Pointing and indicating are frequent functions in graphical interfaces, so in adition to a wide selection of pointing hands, the Wingdings fonts also offer arrows in careful gradations of weight and different directions and styles. For variety and impact as bullets, asterisks, and ornaments, Windings also offers a varied set of geometric circles, squares, polygons, targets, and stars.
| File name | Wingding.ttf Wingdng2.ttf Wingdng3.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Wingdings Wingdings 2 Wingdings 3 |
| Designers | N/A |
| Copyright | © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
| Font vendor | Microsoft Corp. |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Zsym' slng:'Zsym' |
| Code pages | Symbol Symbol Character Set |
| Fixed pitch | False |
Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.00 |
| Windows XP SP2 | 2.55 |
| Windows XP | 2.55 |
| Windows 2000 | 2.55 |
| Windows 98 Second Edition | 2.55 |
| Windows 98 | 2.50 |
| Windows 95 | 2.00 |
| Windows 3.1 | 1.00 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.00 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 2.55 |
Microsoft Word Wingdings
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.