keyboard shortcuts for inserting symbols in Excel & Word

[Jann]

I need to insert several different symbols into Excel and Word documents
(e.g., a check mark, greek letters). Since I do this frequently I would like
to create a keyboard shortcut but have been unable to find out how to do this
in either Excel or Word. I have Office 2007 with Windows XP2002. Does
anyone have any idea on this?

 

[Jann]

I need to insert several different symbols into Excel and Word documents
(e.g., a check mark, greek letters). Since I do this frequently I would like
to create a keyboard shortcut but have been unable to find out how to do this
in either Excel or Word. I have Office 2007 with Windows XP2002. Does
anyone have any idea on this?

 

[Jann]

I need to insert several different symbols into Excel and Word documents
(e.g., a check mark, greek letters). Since I do this frequently I would like
to create a keyboard shortcut but have been unable to find out how to do this
in either Excel or Word. I have Office 2007 with Windows XP2002. Does
anyone have any idea on this?

Actually, I figured out how to do auto-correct to insert the symbol in Word
- but still can't get it to work in Excel.

 

[TomB]

If you use the shortcut to enter the equation editor (alt =) then you can
type \mu will enter lower case mu, \gamma will add lower case gamma \GAMMA
will add upper case gamma etc, then hit enter to add the greek letter and
enter again to close the equation editor

 

[TomB]

Actually sorry, after hitting the \gamma , hit the spacebar to turn it to the
greek letter, then hit enter to close the editor. this works in Word 2007,
not sure about Excel