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SIGMA SYMBOL IN WORD 2010 HOW TO
SIGMA SYMBOL IN WORD 2010 CODE

Using Times New Roman, BOLD, type capital “C”, go to Insert -> Symbol -> More Symbols (the shortcut to get there is Alt-n-u-m), then for font (Alt-f) choose “(normal text)”, then in the lower right of the dialog (Alt-c), choose “Character code: 0305” and at the top right, the Subset should automatically switch to “Combining Diacritical Marks”. There’s a few ways to do an overbar, but the one that looks best to me can be done by inserting a symbol. I’d show you, but I guess I can’t use Times New Roman here.įor numbers greater than 4,999 you’ll need one or more overbars. I’m using Word 2013 and what I found to look best (good enough for me) are simply the BOLD Capital letters of “Times New Roman” (go figure). Or, if you have an equation tool open, you can hover your cursor over the symbol and the name of the symbol and any available typing shortcuts (e.g. You can find a list of typing shortcuts here: This initiates a special kind of AutoCorrect that replaces the text you are typing with symbols or diacritical marks. Equation”.Ĭheck the box next to “Replace as you type” This allows you to use these math and symbol typing short-cuts outside of the equation tool (a little mini-window within your document for equations). (In all of these cases, do NOT type the quotes.)Ĭlick on File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options > Math AutoCorrectĬheck the box next to “Use Math AutoCorrect rules outside of math regions” For Greek letters “\sigma” produces σ, while “\Sigma” produces Σ. If you’re looking for a way to not have to do so many mouse clicks and interrupt your typing, there are options to TYPE many math symbols and operators.įor example, “x\bar” will produce x̅, or “q\hat” will produce q̂. Go forth into the world and enjoy the same liberation I have just felt… o, ye writers of statistical stuff in documents. Going further right, there’s a dropdown that says “from:” and you’ll want to make sure that you see “Unicode (hex)” selected in that box.

SIGMA SYMBOL IN WORD 2010 CODE

That’s the code for a bar-on-top-of-a-letter. To the right of the text area labeled “Character code:” type in 0305. In the bottom right, you’ll see a text area and a dropdown. Next, go to Insert -> Symbol, drop down to “More Symbols”, and in the window that pops up, make sure you have selected “Arial Unicode MS” as the font.Only now, type in a letter that you want to adorn with a bar.Voila, your p has a hat!! Now, type a few spaces and let’s do this again.Going further right, there’s a dropdown that says “from:” and you’ll want to make sure that you see “Unicode (hex)” selected in that box. Click “Insert”. That’s the code for a hat-on-top-of-a-letter.

To the right of the text area labeled “Character code:” type in 0302.

First, type in a letter that you want to adorn with a hat.

UNTIL THIS MORNING when I really, really, really wanted to be able to use y-bar and p-hat in my paragraph, without having to do the even kludgier thing where you just call them “y-bar” and “p-hat” in the text. That doesn’t feel good.Įven Arial Unicode MS, the behemoth of fonts (it even contains tons of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters) does not have essential statistical symbols. But turns out, it DOES have this very useful capability called “combining diacritics” - and here’s how you can use it to type characters with their own hats and bars on them. However, I don’t want to be embedding images if all I have to do is make reference to a variable within a paragraph of text… and I’ve never had a good solution. This works nicely, and even though some people might think it’s a kludge, I kind of like the ability to retain the personality of my own handwriting in my technical documents. This has led me to apply what I like to call “agile shortcuts” - basically, I’ll write down the equation in my own handwriting, take a picture of it, and then use a paint program to crop and clean up my equation before inserting it into my document.

And I have to type equations and expressions not often (like every sentence or every other sentence), but definitely regularly. I use Microsoft Word to prepare documents.

SIGMA SYMBOL IN WORD 2010 HOW TO

This is how ILLUMINATED I felt when I figured out how to type statistical symbols in MS Word… the temple at Burning Man 2014.