Open-office defines what is know as the ' Alt Codes' for some special characters (Note that these do not include the full range of Unicode characters). They have a different way-out of handling the special characters and that too is in a pretty naive state as of this writing. The method/ shortcut keys 'Alt + x' won't work in open-office word. Some commonly used mathematical symbols there meaning andĬorresponding Unicode values are presented in the table below: You have it, a beautiful conjunction symbol ‘ ∧’ on your document page. Word document, just type 2227, select it and press “Alt + x” keys. The code will be converted to its corresponding special character.įor example, the Unicode value for the logical AND To convert a Unicode value to corresponding specialĬharacter in MS Word just type the code for the symbol, select it and press ‘Alt Type those special characters whose Unicode values you know. Hates using mouse while typing any document, such a “Go to Menu and find this” You can go to 'Insert tab → Symbol → More symbols', find your desired special character over there and use it in your document. MS Word provides a special facility of putting in special (NOTE: This method is tried and tested with MS-Word 20) Word/ Converting Unicode values to corresponding (special) characters in MS-Word : Writing special characters with Unicode values in MS

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