When writing in Word, you may need to insert some mathematical symbols like approximately equal symbol to the document every now and then. But without a button allowing you to directly type it, how to insert an approximately equal symbol in Word?
First of all, place the insertion pointer where you need to insert the symbol. Now, using the Mac keyboard, Press Ctrl + g, Ctrl + a simultaneously. This shortcut should insert the symbol for you on your Mac PC. In the next section, I’ll show you how to use the Alpha Symbol Alt Code to type the symbol on your keyboard. Inserting Emojis and Special Symbols Similar to Windows Character Map, Mac has a Character Viewer tool to insert emojis, symbols and special characters in any text content. Press, “ Command + Control + Space ” to open Character Viewer and insert the symbol you need. Jackie wrote on Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:35:28 -0800: J Our company has an sm symbol, a Service Mark and I am J unable to find it in Word, Insert Symbols or in the J Character Map. You got me interested and I went to www.unicode.org where I discovered that the so-called 'service mark' is Unicode 2120 and thus can be gotten in Word by 2120 ALT+x. Insert symbol On the Insert menu, click Advanced Symbol, and then click the Symbols tab. Click the symbol that you want. In PowerPoint for Mac go to Insert menu and then click Symbol option to open the Characters dialog (make sure you have the cursor in a text box, otherwise the Symbol option will appear disabled). Here, then search for the Plus and Minus sign.
Method 1: Insert Approximately Equal Symbol
1. Open the Word document and switch to Insert tab.
2. Click Symbol and hit More Symbols… in the drop-down list.
3. In Symbol tab of the popping out window, choose the Font as normal text, from as Unicode (hex) and change Subset to Mathematical Operators.
You’ll find many mathematical symbols here including approximately equal symbol, not equal symbol, greater than or equal to symbol, less than or equal to symbol in the list.
4. Just select the one you need and hit Insert to add it to your document.
Method 2: How to Type Approximately Equal Symbol
Instead of finding specific symbols in a long list, you can also type it directly.
There’s no such an approximately equal symbol on your keyboard, in deed. But you can press [Alt] key and enter the corresponding Unicode value at the same time.
Here’s a list of shortcuts to type commonly used mathematical symbols, you can also copy and paste them to your document:
Mathematical Symbol
Shortcuts
Approximately Equal Symbol
≈
ALT+8776
Not Equal to Symbol
≠
ALT+8800
Less than or Equal to Symbol
≤
ALT+8804
Greater than or Equal to Symbol
≥
ALT+8805
Infinity Symbol
∞
ALT+8734
Method 3: Insert Approximately Equal Symbol from Microsoft Equation
You can also insert the symbol from , but before that, you should add this object to your document first.
1. Go to Insert tab, click Object in Text Section and choose Object…
2. Select Microsoft Equation 3.0 in Create New menu. Click OK to enable it.
Insert Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint
Insert Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint
4. A textbox will be created beside the cursor, you can click it and hit the Relational symbols section to expand the menu, then select the approximately equal symbol in the drop down list to insert it.