Font symbols help?

Hi does anyone know anything about font symbols?
I have already tried doing a search in the forum for them with no luck.
I tried following instructions i got from the macromedia website but in the end it didn’t work, and dont know where i went wrong.

Can anyone help???

Do you mean making a font into a symbol in Flash??

oh sorry, it was to create a font in the library panel as a shared library item.

Can anyone help? I’m really struggling to get this to work.