Quite a multitude of ways to insert symbols in PowerPoint. Choose a method you like and fall back on the others when in doubt. I’ll tell you right away, the last method is the fastest and most efficient. The one I use.
To Insert the less than or equal sign in power point you just have to use the combinations of keys. It is very simple. Equal to or type 2265 and Alt-X for the greater than or equal to or follow the pic 1) To type less than sign(<): You h. The basic operation is simple: Choose a symbol and then either click the Insert button or double-click the symbol. You find two tabs: Symbols and Special Characters. Inserting from the Symbols tab in Office 2011 applications. The Symbols tab offers a grid-based preview of symbols contained in the font selected in the Font pop-up menu. Search for a character or symbol: Enter a commonly used word or phrase (such as question mark) or code (such as U+003F) in the search field, then press Return. To insert a character or symbol in a document, position the insertion point in the document where you want the item to appear, then click the item in the viewer.
Below is a screen grab of the Symbols icon on the PowerPoint interface, buried in submenus.
Insert Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint
Method 1 — Insert Symbol using PowerPoint’s utility
Place your cursor in your text box, where you need that symbol. The Symbol icon will only be active if you have clicked inside a text box, otherwise it’s greyed-out.
Click on the insert tab.
Move your mouse to the right end of the ribbon and click the Symbol icon.
A window appears with an enormous selection of symbols. Hopefully the symbol you need is located in the normal text series i.e., the font series you are presently using as a default. Otherwise there are 3 wingding series or the symbol series available in the font pull-down menu. Thousands available. You just have to figure out where your symbol is hiding.
We will use the Euro symbol for this example. Once you have located the symbol, click on it, it will appear in the list of recently used symbols, below the main series.
Then you can click insert.
Click close!
Now wasn’t that tedious! A bit faster next time, if you need the same symbol, as it will appear in the bottom list of recently used symbols.
Method 2 — Insert Symbol using the PC’s Character Map
A second way to insert symbols is by pulling-up the character map from your PC’s system menu. The Character Map is located in the Start Menu / All Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Map
Character-Map icon
That’s already way too many clicks, five, and we haven’t even found the symbol we need. If you like the Character Map utility, drag a shortcut to your start menu, it will shorten that path.
Here we go for the second method:
Click the Start menu
Click on All Programs
Click on the Accessories folder
Click on the System Tools sub-folder
Click on the Character Map icon
Scroll to locate your symbol (I found the Euro symbol 11 scroll clicks down in the list!)
Click on the symbol
Click the Select button, it will appear in the Characters to Copy window below
Then click copy. This copies the symbol to your clipboard in memory. No close button here. Just close the Character Map utility.
Go back yo PowerPoint
Click in your text box, where you need that symbol
Click paste in the Home tab( or CTRL-V)
That was 23 clicks to insert a tiny symbol. Ridiculous. Worse than method 1, above.
Method 3 — Insert symbols using ALT key combos
My favourite method to insert symbols. It requires a bit of memory. Or else a cheat sheet pinned somewhere close by. If you look at the screen-grab above, the Character Map window, have a look at the bottom Advanced View area. It lists the ALT-key combinations you can use to accomplish your insert-symbol task, much more quickly. Way in the bottom right corner it says that the keystroke for the Euro symbol is ALT-0128. I’ve circled it. Here we go for method 3:
Place your cursor in your text box, where you want that symbol
Click and hold the ALT key, and at the same time punch in those four digits and let go the ALT key
That was 5 keystrokes! A winner method for me.
Insert Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint
Here are the keystrokes I’ve memorize and use daily:
Alt 0150 for the en dash – a dash as long as the letter “n” – Alt 0151 for the em dash — a dash as long as the letter “m” --
There are many lists on the web showing you all of theses codes. Google “ASCII table” or ASCII list” and you’ll certainly find a site easier to use than the Character Map.Here’s one for Alt Key Combos http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp
The plus or minus character is a mathematical symbol and it can have different meanings depending on the context. The plus-minus character can be inserted in any document and also in the PowerPointSlides. Normally, this sign can be used to indicate the confidence interval or a range of values that are considered to be acceptable.
If you want to insert a plus-minus sign in powerpoint, there are many different alternatives to accomplish it:
Method #1 Copy and Paste the character
Select this character and copy it to the clipboard: ±
Then, go to the powerpoint slide and paste it.
Inserting Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint For Mac Os
Method #2 Insert the Plus or Minus Sign using Characters in powerpoint
Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint
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. Just start typing Plus in the search box to find very easy the results for the plus icons, as you can see in the figure below.
How To Insert Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint
Make a double click over the sign to insert it in the slide.
Inserting Approximate Symbol In Powerpoint For Mac Shortcut
If you use it too often, you can consider to add the sign to your your favorites by clicking Add to Favorites.