Greek Letters and Equations *RESOLVED*

[agmorgan]

I'm having trouble converting the Greek letter Gamma when I
convert my Word document to pdf format.
It converts fine when it is in an equation, but not when
it is in the body text.

I tried to record a macro to find instances of Gamma in the
main text and replace it with instances of Microsoft
Equation Editor containing one letter.

Unfortunately when I run the macro I am left with empty equations.
Is it possible to programatically add Equations?
If not, can anyone think of a better way of solving this?

I'm converting to pdf using pdf995 (freeware).

[alex_read]

can you copy & paste both the equation & a word in the main text with this character into a new doc & attach it please?

[agmorgan]

Attached is an example.
It looks something like this:

Converting between different formats
Introduction
Blah blah blah
The method
à = Greek gamma in main text
(1)= Example in an equation
(2)= Simpler example in equation
. {Equation here} (1)
. {Equation here} (2)

This is how it looks in the pdf document
You can see here that the Greek gamma has come out like a capital
A with an accent in the quote, instead of a capital F without the
lower horizontal line

/Andrew

[agmorgan]

Success!
Instead of inserting Gamma from the Times New Roman Subset
I inserted it from the Symbol main font set.

Now I just need to write a macro to find and replace all instances
but that cant be too hard can it?!

[agmorgan]

As predicted it wasn't hard at all!

Sub Gamma()
'
' Gamma Macro
' Gamma written 09/07/2003 by Andrew Morgan
'
 
 
Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=0)
With myRange.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Text = ChrW(915)
    With .Replacement
        .ClearFormatting
        .Font.Name = "Symbol"
        .Text = ChrW(-4025)
    End With
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Format:=True, MatchCase:=True, MatchWholeWord:=True
End With
 
End Sub