Help: having some trouble dublicating a character

Question

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to me its an asterisk. But i just cant get it to look right. im using unstructured frame 10. ive tried several character designs but nothing seems to look right. i have microsoft office installed so i have a ton of fonts. i dont care how its done just as its 90% similar when printed. Help please.

Answer 1

Let's suppose that Zapf Dingbats \x6b is what we want.
This is how I'd do it:
Create a Character Format named "Dingbats".
Set all fields of the dialog to As-Is or blank except:
Family: ZapfDingbats
Special > Variable [Create Variable]
Name: char.symbol.asterisk-full
Definition: <Dingbats>\x6b<Default ¶ Font>
Anywhere you need this:
Special > Variable
{select char.symbol.asterisk-full from list}
[Insert]
You might need to play with the point size in the Chr Fmt.
Yes, you can hand type this as a local override, using some special keyboard sequence.
Doing it as a variable has numerous advantages: It avoids having the next character be a Dingbat too, if not also the wrong size. You don't need to memorize or look up the key sequence, font name, etc. every time you need it. You get global control over all instances, in case you find a glyph you like better in some other typeface. If used in a heading, it will appear as an "*" instead of a "k". Spell check won't hassle you about the "k".