Installed Font not working

I found the Font Book and the font I want to use - Apple Symbols. I've tried a dozen different ways to get this font to work in WORD or APPLEWORKS, but it never shows up anywhere but in the Font Book. It even shows up as 'INSTALLED', but it still won't show up anywhere else? I've googled instructions, but they all tell me to just go to Font Book, double clik the font, hit INSTALL when the window opens and go for it. But nothing happens.
Where I would like it - In WORD there under the INSERT pull-down is a menu item labelled SYMBOLS. If I could get this font in there I'd be a REAL happy camper!
On a related topic, all my fonts in the WORD fontlist seem triple-spaced when I scroll up and down. What's up with that?
Love my new MacMini G4 - who knew they could put a whole computer in a chocolate box? Of course, who ever thought they could put a hundred LPs in a credit card?

Welcome to the Discussions!
Apple Symbols is indeed a rather special font. On my Macs, it does not even show up in Font Book. Word 2004, as you discovered, does not recognize it as a symbol font. In order to use this font, you need to open System Preferences (Apple menu) and go to the International pane. There, in the Input Menu tab, enable the Character Palette and check the box for showing the input menu. After closing System Preferences, you should have a flag icon on the RH side of the menu bar. Select the Character Palette for many options for examining all the glyphs available and inserting them into compatible programs. I would recommend TextEdit rather than Word for experimenting.
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> An associate suggested that sometimes Flash doesn't like
the names to be
> non-standard; in other words, it doesn't like "Heavy",
but prefers "Bold", etc.
> This seems to support the fonts not being displayed in
the Flash font menu, as
> they are AvenirLTStd-Heavy.otf,
AvenirLTStd-HeavyOblique.otf,
> AvenirLTStd-LightOblique.otf and
AvenirLTStd-Oblique.otf. The only two being
> displayed in the font menu are AvenirLTStd-Roman.otf and
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> ("Roman" and "Light" are pretty traditional names).
> I've tried renaming the fonts to "Bold" and "italic",
etc., but Windows still
> sees the original names. I've tried opening the fonts in
Notepad and changing
> all references (for example, all "Heavy" to "bold"), but
saving the font file
> (even if I add and remove a space) makes it unreadable
as a font (security
> issues, I think).
> One reason I think it's a naming issue, is I did try
renaming Heavy to Roman,
> and installed it, and Flash saw it as Roman, but it had
the Heavy
> characteristic. This work-around doesn't work, however,
as I need Roman, too
> (and renaming it Roman2 doesn't work).
> Is there any solution for this? I need access to all of
the Avenir font
> family, as it's for a branded project that uses Avenir
specifically.
> Oh, and last but not least, I have the fonts installed
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