Symbols in Excel 2007 Chart

[johnmclaughlin48]

Dear Group,

Hello. I would like to use the greek mu symbol in an Excel 2007
histogram. I am able to convert the "m" into the proper "mu" symbol
in the spreadsheet itself but this is not reflected in the resulting
graphic. I need for my X axis label to be represented by the proper
greek letter, not m. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Thank you in advance.

John McLaughlin

 

[Jon Peltier]

In many fonts, holding Alt while typing 0181 on the numeric keypad produces
µ. This means you don't have to change the font for some of the characters
in a text element (and many text elements cannot be formatted character by
character).

- Jon

 

[johnmclaughlin48]

Dear Group,

Hello. I would like to use the greek mu symbol in an Excel 2007
histogram. I am able to convert the "m" into the proper "mu" symbol
in the spreadsheet itself but this is not reflected in the resulting
graphic. I need for my X axis label to be represented by the proper
greek letter, not m. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Thank you in advance.

John McLaughlin

Thanks Jon, This worked! I didn't know about this method and did not
expect it to work. Before you sent this message I went ahead and
imported the graphic into PowerPoint without the labels and then put
the labels in by hand- very time consuming. Your method will save me
a great deal of time in the future.

Thanks again.

Take care,

John
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