Insert a Check Mark from Symbols There are a lot of symbols in Excel which you can use and the check mark is one of them. Inserting a symbol in a cell is no brainier, you just need few steps. To create a List in Excel 2008, select your existing data table and choose Insert > List, and the List Wizard will appear. Step 1 of 3 wants to know Where is the data is for your list? And has correctly selected the range and guessed that My list has headers.

As Office-Watch reader, Peter C. Noted in an email to us “ b” The Word for Mac dialog only shows the first 228 characters in a font! That’s OK for an old-fashioned ASCII font but modern Unicode fonts can have over 100,000 characters!

At least in Word for Windows you can scroll through the list. How to download mac os x to usb for new hard drive. Also missing is the important ‘subset’ pull-down list. If Word for Mac supported the full range of characters, the subset feature would let you jump to a group of characters.

Even if you know the ASCII or Unicode number for the character, you can’t type it in as you can in Office for Windows. The Keyboard Shortcut option is no help either, because it’s limited to making shortcuts from the symbols visible on the dialog. The fix The fix for Macintosh users is the same as in Office for Windows look to the operating system. In Office for Windows, use the The equivalent on the Mac is the expanded keyboard setting. Go to Apple System Preferences Keyboard and check the option ‘Show Keyboard and Character viewers’.

Now the top toolbar has an extra icon. Choose the Keyboard viewer or the Emoji & Symbols floating window.