Hello

           I've read the extract below off the Microsost site but I can't
find the Arial Unicode MS font although I have XP.

           But I have a sneaky feeling that I haven't quite understood sth.

           What I really want is the entire International Phonetic Alphabet
in one place (like a subgroup) when I open 'special characters'

           Can anyone help?

           Thanks

           Dave Neve

           Note  If you are using Microsoft Windows XP, the universal font
for Unicode is automatically installed.
           Arial Unicode MS font is a full Unicode (Unicode: A character
encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. By using more than
one byte to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the
written languages in the world to be represented by using a single character
set.) font. It contains all of the characters, ideographs, and symbols
defined in the Unicode 2.1 standard.

             1.. Note  Because of its considerable size and the typographic
compromises required to make such a font, Arial Unicode MS should be used
only when you can't use multiple fonts tuned for different writing systems.
For example, if you have multilingual data from many different writing
systems in Microsoft Access, you can use Arial Unicode MS as the font to
display the data tables, because Access can't accept many different fonts.