The classic American emergency exit sign ... of symbols: "The U.S. was more parochial then." He suspects that designers never considered whether foreign residents "knew what E-X-I-T meant." ...

dollar sign, treble clef, asterisk, etc. But sometimes the name for a symbol takes on a different sort of meaning, so that it is no longer a name, but a word in its own right. Here are eight words ...

You're almost at the end of drafting your new client's contract when you realize that you used the registration symbol (®) throughout the Microsoft Word document instead of the copyright symbol ...

A reader wants to know why his Microsoft Word has suddenly started sporting a mysterious grid Formatting symbols have suddenly appeared on all my Word documents. What did I do? I've tried Help and ...

Replacing all instances of a symbol with another symbol in a Word document sounds like it would be a straightforward task; unfortunately, it's not. Here's a quick way to work around the glitch ...