Aug 03, 2017 To insert symbol in PowerPoint and Excel 2016 for Mac, please first go to System PreferenceKeyboardclick on 'Show Keyboard, Emoji & Symbol Viewer in the menu bar' Then go to menu barInsertSymbolwhen the symbols show up, use mouse to scroll down to select the symbol you need. To insert an en dash or an em dash, you can use the keyboard. Do you want to insert a check mark, which is also called a tick mark, in your slides? Very often, this symbol indicates a task is done, and you may want to add it as part of your regular text in text placeholders and boxes, shapes, tables, and even charts. Fortunately, it is very easy to complete this task in most versions of PowerPoint for Mac.
Using the Advanced Symbol tool in Word 2011 for MacWithin Microsoft Word is a feature that people switching from PC to Mac will find familiar. You display the Symbol dialog by choosing Insert→Symbol→Advanced Symbol. The basic operation is simple: Choose a symbol and then either click the Insert button or double-click the symbol.
You find two tabs: Symbols and Special Characters. Inserting from the Symbols tab in Office 2011 applicationsThe Symbols tab offers a grid-based preview of symbols contained in the font selected in the Font pop-up menu. When you click a symbol, the description area updates and displays the font’s ASCII number and Unicode character number, which you can ignore if you don’t know what that means. If you’ve assigned a keyboard shortcut to a particular symbol, the shortcut is displayed in the Description area.To insert a symbol, select it in the grid and click the Insert button.Inserting special characters in Word 2011The Special Characters tab of the Symbol dialog has a list of frequently used characters and displays the built-in keyboard shortcuts for those characters in Word.
To insert a special character, select it from the list and click the Insert button.
Miscellaneous. (Apple symbol): OPTION + SHIFT + k. # (number sign): OPTION + 3The Keyboard ViewerBesides the symbols mentioned above, dozens more can be typed using a regular Apple keyboard.Mac OS has a rather useful built-in utility called the Keyboard Viewer – an onscreen keyboard that displays many of the possible symbols.To Activate the Keyboard Viewer:1.
Open System Preferences - Keyboard2. Tick the box labelled Show Keyboard and Character Viewers in menu bar Enable the Keyboard and Character ViewersThe Input menu now appears in the menu bar as shown (the 5th icon on the right): The Input menu in the menu bar3. Click on the Input menu icon.
From the drop-down menu options choose Show Keyboard Viewer to open the utility The Keyboard Viewer displays common symbolsThe Keyboard Viewer shows key combinations such as those mentioned above, and many more. It can also be used to insert symbols – simply click on a symbol to insert into documents or emails.Try holding down the OPTION key, or OPTION + SHIFT to see the choices available. The Keyboard Viewer remains on top of other windows at all times, and even stays in position when you switch to another workspace in fullscreen mode. The Character ViewerJust like the Keyboard Viewer, the Character Viewer can be accessed via the top menu bar when the Input menu has been enabled. Choose Show Character Viewer from the drop-down menu, which opens Character Viewer as shown below. Alternatively, it can be accessed within certain applications such as Safari and Pages by choosing Special Characters from the Edit menu (or COMMAND + OPTION + t). The Character ViewerThere are literally thousands of symbols within the Character Viewer, grouped into useful categories such as Math Symbols, Punctuation, Arrows and Latin.
Simply double-click any item to insert into the current document.
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