symbols in excel

[jim]

I can't seem to use symbols on my mac version of excel. I
tried using the clipboard that is shared between word and
excel but it converts the Pi and Delta signs to a P or a d
respectively. Maybe I'm being stupid but I also can't
seem to find a symbol's table in excel either. Of course
you can't find anything about thisin the help files. Is
there anyway I can get these symbols into excel?

Thanks,
Jim

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

I can't seem to use symbols on my mac version of excel. I
tried using the clipboard that is shared between word and
excel but it converts the Pi and Delta signs to a P or a d
respectively. Maybe I'm being stupid but I also can't
seem to find a symbol's table in excel either. Of course
you can't find anything about thisin the help files. Is
there anyway I can get these symbols into excel?

XL is converting the ascii character represented by pi or delta to
the cell's font. If you're pasting to a cell, choose Paste
Special/Text, or change the cell's font to the font you copied from
in Word.

If you're pasting within a cell in Edit mode, select the characters
and change the font to that you copied from in Word.

XL doesn't have a "insert symbol" menu item, but you can use the
standard key combinations. For instance, in most fonts, opt-p will
produce the pi symbol and opt-d will produce a delta.