The symbol will then appear in your document at your cursor.

The full range of special characters in Microsoft Word. Click Insert to add the symbol to your document. Scroll through until you find the symbol you want to use. There will never be the possibility to cover all the use cases out there, but at least some of them could be covered by the symbols which I mentioned above. Go to Insert > Symbols and click Symbol to open the menu. There are also a lot of symbols without any unicode equivalent, but these are mainly note fonts and can be very customized, even hand written fonts are used very often. See for example guitar do you have any further experience on commonly used musical annotation? Staffs are mostly composed by dashes and on the lines the notes are just written with letters and standard punctuation signs. Most other signs are not commonly used at least from what I can see. Thus, such unicode symols like bars or lines are not commonly used.

a line containing notes) is displayed graphically. Thanks for bringing this up, here are some of my thoughts on this: