The code automatically converts into the symbol.
In your Word document, type the code for the symbol, followed by any of these: spacebar, Tab key, Enter key. Step 4: Type the word into the Find what field for which you wish to replace all occurrences of that word with another word. Word 2010 helps you in this regard by providing Enclose Characters, this feature allows one to make a symbol out of the shapes provided within. Step 3: Click the Replace button in the Editing section of the navigational ribbon. Word 2010 has a huge list of pre-defined symbols and notations, but sometimes it become frantic need to insert customize symbols or make another one by fusing shapes and characters. In the grid of symbols, the check mark is selected. In the Character code box at the bottom, enter: 252. The Symbols button is on the far right end of the Insert toolbar tab. Step 2: Click the Home tab at the top of the window. Open the Symbol dialog box: Word or Outlook: Insert > Symbols > More Symbols.
Click OK, then OK again to close the dialog boxes. Step 1: Open your document in Microsoft Word 2010. While you’re here, take a look at the codes for the symbols you might want to use often - almost all of them start with a backslash (e.g. Select the Use Math AutoCorrect rules outside of math regions check box. Click the AutoCorrect Options button (near the top right). Word 2010: Go to the Find tab and select Options. Word 2007: Click the Office button, then click the Word Options button. \mu or \approx), you can just type it in and when you press a space, tab or Enter after it, it will convert to the symbol using the power of AutoCorrect. 3) Select the Use Math AutoCorrect rules outside of math regions and Replace text as you type check-boxes to have these characters appear in your text document on the go. If the symbol is in the drop down panel, click on it and it will be inserted. As you can see, when you type the characters in the LEFT column of the table, Word automatically creates the corresponding character on the RIGHT column. However, if you have Word 2007 or later, you can make one setting change, then, if you know the name of the symbol that Word uses (e.g. Sometimes when typing documents in Microsoft Word, one may desire to insert a special character that is not accessible from the keyboard. Unfortunately, this trick only seems to work in Word 2007 or later, so if you have Word 2003 or earlier, you’ll have to hunt them out via the Symbols dialog. I must have been living under a rock, because I’ve just discovered another, simpler way to insert these types of mathematical symbols into Word. I had assumed that they hunted them out on the Symbols dialog box and inserted them that way. I’ve been editing environmental science documents in Word 2007 for a couple of years now, and I’ve always wondered how the authors inserted symbols such as mu and the double approximation symbol.