![]() If Word for Mac supported the full range of characters, the subset feature would let you jump to a group of characters.Įven if you know the ASCII or Unicode number for the character, you can’t type it in as you can in Office for Windows. The Word for Mac dialog only shows the first 228 characters in a font! That’s OK for an old-fashioned ASCII font but modern Unicode fonts can have over 100,000 characters! At least in Word for Windows you can scroll through the list.Īlso missing is the important ‘subset’ pull-down list. “ I cannot seem to access symbols not visible in the panel, … has Microsoft intentionally restricted the range of non-keyboard characters and symbols available on the Mac version of Word?“ ![]() We assume the term ‘Advanced’ is used here sarcastically because there’s little ‘advanced’ about it.Īs Office-Watch reader, Peter C. Or open up the main dialog to scroll through many more symbols or jump to exactly the one you want.īut Word 2016 for Mac is just a cursory effort that’s typical of Microsoft’s ‘just enough – but no more’ attitude to the Mac version of Office. In Word for Windows it’s quite developed with a list of recently used characters: Here’s a few common Alt + X shortcuts plus others, with their shortcuts that are in Office itself.One of the many small, but annoying, limitations in Office for Mac is the Insert Symbol feature. No one expects you to remember all the hex codes, after all there are over 40,000 of them in Unicode. Make a mistake? – as always, Undo is your friend – Ctrl + Z.Case doesn’t matter – a9 and A9 both work to make the Copyright symbol.The leading zeroes aren’t necessary – 00A5 and A5 both work to make the Yen symbol. ![]() The value will be changed to the Symbol automatically. Type in the hexadecimal Unicode value of the symbol you want, then press Alt + X. So why not just keep your fingers on the keyboard? ![]() ![]() Inserting Symbols into Word documents takes time when you have to go up to the ribbon Insert | Symbols | Symbol at the very least. Here is how to quickly insert symbols in Word without taking your fingers off the keyboard. ![]()
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