Keep in mind, that in the same way we can Insert Symbolsin a Microsoft Word Document and an Excel Spreadsheet.īelow you can check out the video describing How To Quickly Add Symbols in a PowerPoint Presentation?ĭon’t Forget To Subscribe To My YouTube Channel. In the image below, we can see the Smiley Face Symbol that I have inserted next to the text in my Slide. We also have available the Unicode Name and the number of the Character Code. Once finished the Cancel button will change to the Close button, so we can return to our Slide.Īt the bottom of the Symbol dialog box, we have the area Recently Used Symbols, where we can select from to I nsert in our Slide. Once we Insert a Symbol, the Symbol dialog box does not close, so we can continue the same procedure of inserting Symbols. Once selected, all we need to do for the Symbol to be inserted is to press the Insert button, which is located at the bottom right corner of the Symbol dialog box. In the image below I have selected the Font Family Windings, and then I have selected a Smiley Face Symbol from the middle of the Symbol dialog box. The symbol “⊂” means “is a proper subset of”. A subset is a set whose elements are all members of another set. Keep in mind that depending on the Font Family that we select for our Symbol, it might not have a Subset. In the image below the Subset is Latin-1 Supplement. We can then select the drop-down menu for the Subset we want to use for our Symbol. In the image below the Font is Normal Text. In this dialog box, we can select from the Font drop-down menu the Font Family that we want to use for our Symbol. Once we select the Symbol command, the Symbol dialog box appears as shown in the image below. We Can Choose From A Variety Of Options Including Mathematical, Currency and Copyright Symbols. Once located we select the command Symbol, where we are notified that we can Add Symbols That Are Not In Our Keyboard. We must select the Insert tab and then from the right area of the ribbon we locate the area named Symbols as shown in the image below. To find out How To Insert a Symbol in a PowerPoint Presentation just keep on reading the post below. Then thing that we must keep in mind is that we must realize that the Symbol depends on which Font we use. Hundreds of Symbols are not available on our keyboard. ** Above mentioned procedure is not aplicable for MacOS.įor more information on how to use symbols, emojis please check our How to use Alt-Codes? page.We can easily add a special character, fraction, currency symbol or any other Symbol that is not on our keyboard in a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation, Microsoft Word Document or Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. release the Alt key and you got a ° degree symbol.
Compatibility issues with old ANSI codes prevent the entry of all Unicode characters.
After adopting Windows to Unicode, the entry of all Unicode characters by the same method was desired, and achieved by some applications, but couldn't be spread to all system.
Codes with a preceding 0 represent the new ANSI codes.įor the last two decades, Unicode is being adopted by many systems. Three-digit codes represent the OEM codes. The new set was named ANSI(later changed to Windows codes), and the old ones called as OEM(original equipment manufacturer) code pages.
These codes became so popular so that Microsoft, even though developed a new set of codes, decided to keep them. The system which interprets this action and places the corresponding character at the cursor's location is BIOS. IBM developed a method to place the characters that can not be typed by a keyboard on the screen: while keeping the Alt key down, typing the code defined for the character via the numeric keypad.