Character Map can have more for you than providing lots of useful special characters and symbols through a tool named Private Character Editor. It also lets you hand-draw your characters and symbols. Needless to say, this way you can also draw your initials or your signature (provided you have good calligraphic skills), so as to put them at the end of your e-mails for instance. So, thinking of it as a useful tool but not known as much as it should be, this post is aimed to spread the word and to make the tool come handy to you.
From the Start menu, go to Run and type eudcedit there, click Ok.
The Select Code window will open up showing the Hex codes that are for assigning them to the characters that you design, to put it another way every time you create a character file, it is assigned a code and the first time you are going to design your character or a word say your name etc., it is assigned the code of E000. The code range spans from E000 to F8FF. I have selected the E000 code and clicked OK.
The Private Character Editor window having a toolbar appears having a basic toolbar on its left side, using them you can design or draw your character or word just like you do in MS Paint, I have used the default selected pencil tool to freehand draw my initials. The Editor has no significant difference from MS Paint except in its limited space.
When done, in the Edit menu, click on the Save Character button. This way your character is saved in All Fonts(Private Characters).
To access your drawn character, type charmap in the Open box in the Run.
In the font type of All Fonts(Private Characters), click to Select and Copy your character to Paste it to your desired files.
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