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BarTender supports unique from Seagull Scientific that you can apply to text objects on your and . By using Seagull , you have access to a number of standard industry-specific symbols that you can easily resize and format to fit your design needs.
To insert a symbol into a new text object
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From the Create menu, select Text to display a list of available text objects. Alternatively, select the 
icon on the object toolbar.
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From the dropdown list, select Symbol Font Characters to open the Insert Symbols or Special Characters dialog.
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Select the "Seagull" font that you want from the Font dropdown list. The Seagull Scientific fonts are installed as "Seagull" fonts.
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Select the symbol that you want from the preview images.
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Click Insert.
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Click on the template or to insert the symbol where you want it.
To insert a symbol into an existing text object on your template
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Double-click on the text object to open the Text Properties dialog. Alternatively, select Properties from the object's .
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Select the that you want to display the Data Sources property page.
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On the Data Source tab, select the entire contents of the Embedded Data field, as you are going to replace the contents with the Seagull Symbol.
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Click the 
icon to open the Insert Symbols or Special Characters dialog.
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Select the "Seagull" font that you want from the Font dropdown list. The Seagull Scientific fonts are installed as "Seagull" fonts.
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Select the symbol that you want from the preview images.
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Click Insert to insert the symbol into the Embedded Data field on the Data Sources property page.
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Click Close to close the Insert Symbols and Special Characters dialog. The symbol will be visible in the Embedded Data field.
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Click Close to close the Text Properties dialog.
Using shortcut keys to add Seagull font symbols to your document
Shortcut keys are also provided for many of the Seagull font symbols. When you routinely use an industry-specific symbol in your designs, you may find it faster to add your symbol using its shortcut key. To take advantage of this feature, you must first determine the shortcut key for the symbol that you want.
To find a symbol's shortcut key
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From the Create menu, select Text to display a list of available text objects. Alternatively, select the icon on the object toolbar.
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From the dropdown list, select Symbol Font Characters to open the Insert Symbols or Special Characters dialog.
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Select the "Seagull" font that you want from the Font dropdown list. The Seagull Scientific fonts are installed as "Seagull" fonts.
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Select the symbol that you want from the preview images.
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Note the shortcut key displayed on the left side of the dialog, below the preview images and just above the Recently Used Characters.
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The shortcut key displayed for this "Seagull: Recycling" font symbol is Latin Capital Letter F, so the shortcut key is "F".
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To insert a symbol onto a template using the symbol's shortcut key
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From the Create menu, select Text to display a list of available text objects. Alternatively, select the icon on the object toolbar.
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From the dropdown list, select Single Line or Multi-line.
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Click the area on the template or form where you want to insert the text object.
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Click on the text of the text object to highlight the default sample text.
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Type a shortcut key.
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Select the "Seagull" font that you want from the BarTender Text Toolbar. The shortcut key becomes the symbol.
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It is also possible to create the text object on the template and apply the Seagull font to it, and then subsequently read the shortcut key into the text object from a database field. For more information about connecting your document to a database and importing data into template objects, refer to Reading Data from Databases.
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