Hi there,

Last time I promised to help in finding out how phonetic symbols can be inserted in texts using MS Word. These are the methods I've found so far:

1) Click on "Insert" and then on "Symbol." Select "akkphon" on the drop-down menu (this is the name of a font package that has every necessary phonetic symbols in it). This font is a so-called TrueType font and is among the ones that are normally built in MS Word. But if you really don't have it, then

2) here is this link directing you toward further help. It provides some downloads to get fonts that support IPA symbols. I hope it proves useful.

Note: if the first way works, you should render combos (combinations of keyboard buttons) to the most frequently used symbols to avoid the uncomfortable having-to-insert-it-again problem. (E.g., Ctrl+e could be rendered to the symbol of the schwa.)