Using in Excel Spreadsheets
To use the IMS Geometric Tolerancing Font in your Excel spreadsheets the IMS font must be installed on your computer. Do this with the installation packages you download from this web site.
1. First, the cells that you are going to use to put the symbols in need to be set to use the IMS font. Highlight the cells in the spreadsheet that you want to put the symbols in. You can highlight the whole spreadsheet if you want.
2. Then go to Main Menu - Format - Cells.
3. Go to the Font tab. Choose the IMS font.
4. Now that the cells are set to the IMS font you can open the IMS Wizard and choose some symbols. When you have what you want showing up in the bottom box, press the "To Clipboard" button.
5. In Excel, highlight the cell you want to put it in.
6. Press the Paste button in Excel and it will be pasted in the cell.
Notice that the formula bar does not show the IMS font. This is not important as long as it shows up in the cell. The Formula Bar font can be changed by changing the default font settings in Tools - Options - General.
Embedding in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word it is possible to embed the font into a document so the viewer of the document does not need to have the font installed on his computer.
In Word, go to Main Menu - Tools - Options - Save tab. Check "Embed True Type Fonts" and "Embed characters in use only".
This only works if you use the embeddable IMS font to make the document.
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