Why the hell is wingdings a font option in microsoft word?

[Sniper15 0]

Seriously, who writes in that shit? What is the point of having wingdings as as a font option?

[juiced 0]

hahaha, i always wondered that too. i guess it's for if you're looking for a symbol or something. obviously people don't write in it....unless your a geek and can read it

[Caustic Mick 0]

Wingdings is a dingbat font .

A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament". The term supposedly originated as onomatopoeia in old style metal-type print shops, where extra space around text or illustrations would be filled by "ding"ing an ornament into the space then "bat"ing tight to be ready for inking.

The term continued to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that had symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters

So basically such fonts are used in publishing software.

http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index...17164054AA4fPZN

[Hkydog 0]

Yeah, what he said.

[Rustyhole 1]

by typing in it, couldn't you figure out its (and similar fonts) uses?

personally, i never understood emoticons!

[Fletch 219]

You can use it to write in code :)

[D aka speck 0]

I thought that this was answered about 4 posts ago.

A great question...

I think it's great that someone finally asked.

It's covered though...read the whole thread before posting, please.