Quick Unicode

When I open the Symbol font in the Character Map, there are no character set available (U+four digits), but a character code made of 4 digits only. For instance 0xB1 for the plus/minus sign. How can I easily transfer this sign to a WORD document?
This occurs only for some fonts. The most important being the Symbol font, but there are others, like Bonnie, Carolann, System, etc.
Please help!

± is actually a standard character and you can type it in by using Alt+0177. As the Character Map showed, the hexadecimal code is B1, and so with the Quick Unicode utility you can type Alt . * 1 and get the same character.

Be aware, however, that character codes are just character codes with no font attached. For example, if you type the hexadecimal code 61 in the Symbol font, you will see a Greek letter alpha ('α'); but in any font other than Symbol it will appear as a lower-case Latin letter 'a'. You have a choice: you can find the correct Unicode code for the character you want (alpha is U+03B1, or Alt . 3 * 1 with Quick Unicode), or you can tell your application that the character you typed is in the Symbol font. How you do that depends entirely on the application you are using.

Thanks for replying.
My problem is now:
How can I insert a character when its Unicode Code does not begin with a zero?
For instance: U+1E80: Latin Capital Letter W with Grave

It seems that if the Code is U+0xyz, I can insert it by typing Alt-dot-xyz, but the problem is when the Code is U+1xyz.

Thanks for your help

On my computer Alt . 1 Enter 8 0 works perfectly.

You don't say what happens when you try this.

Possibly you are using a font in which Ẁ does not appear as a character.

Hi,

I hate to remember Unicode numbers... In DOS time we had to remember codes for much used characters like ë in Holland (Alt137) and so on. In that time WordPerfect was the main Word processor in The Netherlands. In this there was a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-W for entering non-keyboard characters. It opened on the status bar a line where you could type elements of a non-keyboard character. For ë you typed " and e <enter>. The ë was inserted in your text.
For a lot of people perhaps this character ë is a bad example: it is now in the Windows US International keyboard definition included. But other characters as ø are not possible with this keyboard definition.

Now I wrote a little vb6 program that works like the old WordPerfect way. I connect a shortcut with this program (CTRL_SHIFT_V) and then appear a little dialog. You can enter then elements of the wished charter. If you type / and o (no matter what sequence is), in Cardbox ø is inserted. It does not work (yet) to other Windows programs - only in Cardbox now. I want to extend it - when I got time for it. For now it helps me easy to type most of Eastern Europe characters like ś (='s), ş =(,s), š (=vs) and so on without remembering Unicode numbers. If you like to test it, let me know.

Regards
Bert