Publisher & icons

[Philcinbath]

Publisher has a find and replace facility. 

But it will not do what I want/need to do

Basically I want to insert a Zapf Dingbats symbol into text using a different font. And I can't 

In adobe Indesign, which I would like to get away from,   I can choose to use whatever is on the clipboard .e.g.  a red coloured diamond symbol using Zapf dingbats, into a text string, in say Helvetica Nue 

For me this is a critical feature.