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To type this symbol in your open-office document simply type 0172 while holding the ‘Alt’ key pressed. The corresponding special character should be there.įor example, the ‘Alt Code’ corresponding to the negation symbol ‘ ¬’ (Unicode value U+00AC) is defined to be ‘0172’. To use these ‘Alt Codes’, simply press and hold the ‘Alt’ key, then type the ‘Alt Code’ for the character (when it is defined), and release the ‘Alt’ key.
#SHORTCUT FOR SIGMA SYMBOL IN WORD FULL#
They have a different way-out of handling the special characters and that too is in a pretty naive state as of this writing.Open-office defines what is know as the ‘ Alt Codes‘ for some special characters (Note that these do not include the full range of Unicode characters). The method/ shortcut keys ‘Alt + x’ won’t work in open-office word. Some commonly used mathematical symbols there meaning and corresponding Unicode values are presented in the table below: Voila, there you have it, a beautiful conjunction symbol ‘∧’ on your document page. To have it in your word document, just type 2227, select it and press “Alt + x” keys. The code will be converted to its corresponding special character.įor example, the Unicode value for the logical AND (conjunction) symbol ∧ is U+2227. To convert a Unicode value to corresponding special character in MS Word just type the code for the symbol, select it and press ‘Alt + x’. So here is the keyboard only method to type those special characters whose Unicode values you know. However, for someone like me who hates using mouse while typing any document, such a “Go to Menu and find this” type of task is particularly irritating. You can go to “Insert tab → Symbol → More symbols”, find your desired special character over there and use it in your document.
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MS Word provides a special facility of putting in special symbols in your document. (NOTE: This method is tried and tested with MS-Word 20) Writing special characters with Unicode values in MS Word/ Converting Unicode values to corresponding (special) characters in MS-Word :