Note 1: Shortcuts shown below and mentioned elsewhere in the documentation are based on a US English QWERTY keyboard. Most of the shortcuts are the same for other keyboards, but in some cases will be different. The intended use when these characters were added to Unicode was to allow chemical and algebra formulas and phonetics to be written without markup, but produce true superscripts and subscripts. Thus 'H₂O' (using a subscript character) is supposed to be identical to 'H 2 O' (with subscript markup). In reality most fonts that include these characters ignore the Unicode definition,. Inserting the equation block and using an auto-replace feature for Greek symbols is the fastest and the simplest way to insert Greek symbols. In the slide where you want to insert the symbol, click Alt+= to insert equitation: 2. Inserting the equation block and using an auto-replace feature for Greek symbols is the fastest and the simplest way to insert Greek symbols. In the slide where you want to insert the symbol, click Alt+= to insert equitation.

Inserting the equation block and using an auto-replace feature for Greek symbols is the fastest and the simplestway to insert Greek symbols.

Powerpoint For Mac Equation Greek Letter Shortcut 10

1. In the slide where you want to insert the symbol, clickAlt+= to insert equitation:

2. In the equitation block without any additional efforts, you canenter any symbol that you need just by typing +Name of the symbol:

alpha	kappa	varrho
beta	lambda	sigma
chi	mu	varsigma
delta	nu	tau
epsilon	o	upsilon
varepsilon	pi	omega
phi	varpi	xi
varphi	theta	psi
gamma	vartheta	zeta
eta	iota	rho

To insert a capital letter of the Greek alphabet, simply enter +Name of the symbol startingwith a capital letter:

Delta	Phi	Gamma
Lambda	Mu	Pi
Theta	Sigma	Upsilon
Omega	Hi	Psi

Powerpoint For Mac Equation Greek Letter Shortcut 1

How to insert other symbols and templates in an equation, see Howto insert the mathematical and other symbols into the PowerPoint slide.

3. After entering the symbol, click the space; it changed enteringthe name to the appropriate symbol.

4. Click Alt+= again to exit from the equitation.

Now you can continue entering your text.

Note: you can see all of Name of the symbol that you can use in theAutocorrect Options. To open them, do the following:

1. On the File menu, click the Options button:

2. In the PowerPoint Options dialog box, on theProofing tab, click the AutoCorrect Options... button:

3. In the AutoCorrect dialog box, choose the MathAutoCorrect tab:

On the Math AutoCorrect tab, you can see all Names of symbols that can be used forinserting the Greek symbols.

Note: AutoCorrect options work through all Microsoft Office products on this PC, laptop, etc. Ifyou change some of them in PowerPoint, you will see all changes also in Word, Outlook, and Excel.

See also this tip in French:Comment insérer rapidement des symboles grecs dans votre diapositive PowerPoint.